If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, ‚What kind of music do you make?‘, and you say, ‚Pop music.‘ You may as well have ‚I’m not cool‘ stamped on your forehead.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

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.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

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 wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

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.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

It’s important to love in hip hop.