Music comes to me more readily than words.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

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

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

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!

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‚Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do‘.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don’t obey the rules of progression for novels. I don’t think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let’s say a chunk of fiction.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

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

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to 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.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.