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.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

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

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

I’m definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I’m really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

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.

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.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Cause when you’re sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

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.

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

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

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

The vibe on ‚Starboy‘ comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

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

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

‚Jolene‘ has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

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.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

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

I’m putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

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

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

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.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

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.

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

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.