I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

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

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I never played with anything like toys.

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.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

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

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

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

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.

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

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.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

One of my most popular songs, ‚Satellites,‘ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

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

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

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.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

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

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?