I make good music for long journeys.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

I love movement. I love moshing.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

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.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

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

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

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

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.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

The vibe on ‚Starboy‘ comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

I’m a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker’s ‚You Are So Beautiful‘ and Eric Clapton’s ‚Wonderful Tonight‘ – songs that go straight to the point.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

Latin music is universal.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

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

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

But, I’ve always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can’t afford to own it. So it isn’t really part of their life in the way that music can be.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

Anyone who’s traveled with me to Afghanistan knows why I love this book: ‚War,‘ by Sebastian Junger.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

I’m not saying that people should stop flying. I’m just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‚Discreet Music‘ was like that, and ‚Music for Airports.‘ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

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

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.