Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

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.

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.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

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.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

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 did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

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.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

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

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Remember that before ‚Roe v. Wade‘ was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that’s what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

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

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

Where thou art, that is home.

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.