Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don’t want to perform a lot of my songs because they don’t feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

Love is trembling happiness.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.