As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

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.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I’ve got my cardio people – so it’s anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song ‚Tightrope,‘ that’s a good cardio song. And then I’ve got Sting. I’ve got Mary J. Blige. I’ve got The Beatles. I’ve got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

I think ‚Hail to the Chief‘ has a nice ring to it.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

One of my most popular songs, ‚Satellites,‘ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.