I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

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.

I’m a painter in sound.

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 taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

My nails are my rhythm section when I’m writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

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.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

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.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

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.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

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

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

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

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

My music is a luxury.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

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

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

I’m a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker’s ‚You Are So Beautiful‘ and Eric Clapton’s ‚Wonderful Tonight‘ – songs that go straight to the point.

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.

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

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

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

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.