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

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

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

America is just downright mean.

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

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

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

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

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.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

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

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

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

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

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.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

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.‘

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer – I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

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.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

Rock ‚n‘ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

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

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

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

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

We uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

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.‘