I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

The first wealth is health.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I am two with nature.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

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

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

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

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

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.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

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.

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

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.

The artist in me cries out for design.

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.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

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

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.