I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

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

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

Football is all about fans.

I’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

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.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

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

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

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

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

I was always singing but didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

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.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

It’s a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That’s where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

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.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

A good song never gets old.

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can’t afford to own it. So it isn’t really part of their life in the way that music can be.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

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