I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

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.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can’t afford to own it. So it isn’t really part of their life in the way that music can be.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

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.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

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.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

So many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

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

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.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Sometimes I think that there’s a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.