I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

‚House of Balloons‘ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.

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

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 can operate in half-a-song format.

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.

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.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

A Khaled record is always the best.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

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.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

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

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

I was a super once – an extra – in ‚Die Fledermaus,‘ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

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

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.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

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.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Grief is the price we pay for love.