I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

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

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

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.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

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.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

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.‘

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

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.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

Glutes are power.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.

I believe in singing.

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.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

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

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

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.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

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.

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

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

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

Music is always a commentary on society.

Because you have things like ‚American Idol‘ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

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

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

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

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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

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.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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.

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

Working out anchors my day.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

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.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

The vibe on ‚Starboy‘ comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.

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

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.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.