I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

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.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

So many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

I can dance to just about anything.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

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

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

I love good, loud speakers.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

It’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

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.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

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

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

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

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

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

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

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

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

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.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.