I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

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.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

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.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn’t have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that – except I couldn’t afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

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

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

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.‘

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

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.

When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

Life is a song to me.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

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

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

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‚Hey, I wrote a song.‘

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.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I’m the king of the anthems.

Music is something no one can control.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

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

I love Wiz Khalifa.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.