I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

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

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

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

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I believe in singing.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

I do my job like I breathe.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

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.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

My music is a luxury.

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.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

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.

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

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

One day, I’ll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it’s nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

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.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

An operatic voice is like no other.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

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.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

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 really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.

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

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

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