If music be the food of love, play on.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

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!

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I love life because what more is there?

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

I like Cardi B!

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

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’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

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.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

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

I’ve always tended to write songs prolifically.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

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

‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Rock ‚n‘ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

We will always be a family. Always.

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

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

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.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

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.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.