I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.

I like school and I like learning.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

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

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

As for my stuff, I’m just doing guest verses for other people’s records. I try to stay recording, because if I don’t, I get rusty.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

A chorus is not easy.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

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.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

I’m a painter in sound.

‚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.

However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

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.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.