If music be the food of love, play on.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg’s period. Excuse me, but that’s where it was at.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

We do not judge the people we love.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

I read poetry to save time.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.