At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

I love being in a courtroom.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

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.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to ‚get‘ any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I just want to keep writing music.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

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

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

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

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Football is all about fans.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

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

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

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