In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I love movement. I love moshing.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

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

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

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.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

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

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

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.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

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

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

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

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

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 really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I hate the idea of genres.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

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.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

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.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.