Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

Originality is really important.

All of my music is honest.

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

It’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

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.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

There’s no formula.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I just want to keep writing music.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

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.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‚Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.‘ I don’t want to be part of that.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

I don’t just listen to rap.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.