Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

I don’t just listen to rap.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

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.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

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

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

How I love David Bowie.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

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

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

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

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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.‘

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

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.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.