I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you’re into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

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.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

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.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

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

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

But, I’ve always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it’s wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying ‚I,‘ meaning ‚we.‘

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

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.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.