I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

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

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

I was a super once – an extra – in ‚Die Fledermaus,‘ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It’s the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

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?

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

Music is like film to me.

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.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

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

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

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

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.

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

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

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.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

Music is in my DNA!

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I play a nobody in Japan.

Football is unconditional love.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I’m an Irish man.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.