Music is in my DNA!

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

I’m putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

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

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.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

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

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can’t afford to own it. So it isn’t really part of their life in the way that music can be.

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

I think Mozart’s operas ‚The Marriage of Figaro‘ and ‚Don Giovanni‘ are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

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.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Football is unconditional love.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

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.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.