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

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

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

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

Music can change the world because it can change people.

In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. 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 like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

I make good music for long journeys.

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.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Hatred is settled anger.

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.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

‚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.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

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

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.

I don’t want to make niche-oriented music.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

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