Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

I live in a crazy time.

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

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

This is not a bad life.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

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

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

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.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

If you ever see young artists, and they’re not sounding good, they sound good. They’re good singers. They wouldn’t be where they are if they didn’t sound good. It’s their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he’s or she’s screwing up or not hitting those notes, it’s not because she can’t hit it or she can’t sing; he or she is scared.

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.

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.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

I’m the king of the anthems.

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

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

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

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.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.