I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

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

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 suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

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 love movement. I love moshing.

An operatic voice is like no other.

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

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

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

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I’ve got my cardio people – so it’s anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song ‚Tightrope,‘ that’s a good cardio song. And then I’ve got Sting. I’ve got Mary J. Blige. I’ve got The Beatles. I’ve got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

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 love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

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

I’ve always tended to write songs prolifically.

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

One day, I’ll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it’s nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

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.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

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

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

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 want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

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

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

If there is even one woman out there who went and got checked and found that she had cancer or she was positive and she caught something in time, and if in any small way I was a part of that, it makes me very emotional.

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you’re into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.