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.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

I am the freest author in the world.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

All art is quite useless.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is ‚naive‘ spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of ‚bonsai.‘

For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.