In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

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.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

A chorus is not easy.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

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

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

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

My drive is other people’s success.

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

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

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

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!

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

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.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

All of my music is honest.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

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!

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. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.