I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Music is like film to me.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

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

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

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

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

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

My nails are my rhythm section when I’m writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

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

Latin music is universal.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

We love things we love what they are.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

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

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

I’m putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

I believe in singing.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

Rap was my drug.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

It’s terrifying to play your favorite band’s song in front of your favorite band.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.