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.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I don’t want followers.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

If you can talk, you can write.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That’s what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I believe in singing.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

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

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.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana… plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

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

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I never fall in love.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

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.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Love is trembling happiness.

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.