I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

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

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

People want to feel hopeful.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

We love things we love what they are.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

All you need is love.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.