I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Freedom is relative.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

‚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.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

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

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you’re into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

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.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing – no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn’t happen that much anymore.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

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.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.