It is one thing to record an album but it’s a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

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

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.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

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 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.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

You’ve got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they’ll accept from you.

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.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

I’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

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.

An operatic voice is like no other.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

A Khaled record is always the best.

I don’t know if I’m selfless – I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that’s not completely selfless. But the truth is I’m not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That’s always been how I am.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

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

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

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

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

I’m interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

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.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.