I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

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

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‚Discreet Music‘ was like that, and ‚Music for Airports.‘ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I love good, loud speakers.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

The people in my songs are all me.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

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.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I’m not a sheep.