I love good, loud speakers.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

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

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.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

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

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

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

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

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

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

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.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

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

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

I’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

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

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

After ten years of word processing, I can’t even do hand writing anymore.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‚What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?‘

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

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.