I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

For the chorus of ‚Secrets,‘ we used The Romantics‘ ‚Talking in Your Sleep‘ and ‚Pale Shelter‘ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

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

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

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.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

So many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

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.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

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.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‚Encore.‘ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

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.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we’re a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn’t being ironic.

Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

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.

It’s a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That’s where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

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

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

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.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.