If it’s good music, it’s good music.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

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.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

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.

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I’ve stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

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

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

I’m an iPod person.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

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.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.

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

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

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 can operate in half-a-song format.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I’ve always tended to write songs prolifically.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

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

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

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

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.