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

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

I love good, loud speakers.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

There is no education like adversity.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

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.

One day, I’ll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it’s nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

You aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.

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

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.