It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

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

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I’m a painter in sound.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I’m such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

I would say that the Nipsey Hussle ‚Crenshaw‘ release was an example of All Money In creating an artificial scarcity campaign for the physical side of ‚Crenshaw.‘

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

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.‘

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

No, I can’t do rap music!

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

Latin music is universal.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

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

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

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.

So many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

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.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

How I love David Bowie.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.