I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Everybody is entertained to death.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I believe in singing.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana… plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

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.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

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

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.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

I love movement. I love moshing.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

Basically, I live to do gigs.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.