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

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I love food.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

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

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

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

I love being a part of the country-music community.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

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.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

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

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

But, I’ve always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‚Encore.‘ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.