I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

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

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

An operatic voice is like no other.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

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.

We love things we love what they are.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

‚House of Balloons‘ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

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

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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!

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.