I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

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.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

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

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

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 has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

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.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

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

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

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.

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

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.

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

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process – maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like ‚Lights Please‘ happens like that.

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

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

I got my buzz from playing.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Music is something no one can control.

Nobody’s indispensable.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

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.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

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

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

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.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

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.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

I made the track ‚Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola‘ before I met Balvin.

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.