I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Music is like film to me.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

‚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.

I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Laughter is America’s most important export.

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 was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

If you look at me close enough, there’s a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don’t know if it’s my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

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.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

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.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Wit is educated insolence.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

I think I have always had a little humor.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

I’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.

I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.