A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

The human heart is the same the world over.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?