I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

‚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.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

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

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

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

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

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

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

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

You can be passionate about anything.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

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.

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

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

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 kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

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

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

I love food.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

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

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.