I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

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.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

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.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I was told that someone on Facebook said something ‚horrible‘ about me. Who cares? At least they’re watching the show.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

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 would love to study guitar or trumpet.

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

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

No, I can’t do rap music!

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

Music is really driving my whole life.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

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

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

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.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

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

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

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

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.