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

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

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.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made ‚em up myself.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

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

TV’s a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

I really like children to watch my movies.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.