I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

No, I can’t do rap music!

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

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

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

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.

‚Jolene‘ has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

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.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

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.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

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.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Kanye West is my favorite artist.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

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

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Music is like film to me.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

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

I have to be seen to be believed.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.