If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I’m a producer. I’m a writer.

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.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

I do my job like I breathe.

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.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

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

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

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

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don’t have no exit strategy. It’s just living in the false reality that it’s going to be like this forever.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

One of my most popular songs, ‚Satellites,‘ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I think ‚Hail to the Chief‘ has a nice ring to it.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

Change alone is unchanging.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.