I’m putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

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.

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

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

Rap was my drug.

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

I can dance to just about anything.

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

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

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

Music is something no one can control.

I’ve always tended to write songs prolifically.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

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

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

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.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

I was a super once – an extra – in ‚Die Fledermaus,‘ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

I like Cardi B!

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

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.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

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.