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

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

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.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

When I was five – it’s not even bad – I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

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

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

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.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

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

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I’m the king of the anthems.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I’m not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I’m passionate about. I’m finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, ’90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I’m very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it’s received well, and it has been so far.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

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

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

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.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

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

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.