I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

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.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

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

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

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

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing – no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn’t happen that much anymore.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

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 used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to ‚get‘ any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

I’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I’d really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

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

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

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

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I’ve started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I’d be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

How I love David Bowie.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.