I really am a fan of Ye’s music.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

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.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to ‚get‘ any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

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.

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

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

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

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

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

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

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

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

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 just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

An operatic voice is like no other.

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you’re into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

I love movement. I love moshing.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

I love good, loud speakers.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.