A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I’m putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I don’t just listen to rap.

Music is in my DNA!

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

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 don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

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.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Cause when you’re sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

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

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.