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

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

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

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 kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. 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.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

I think ‚Hail to the Chief‘ has a nice ring to it.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

There is no wealth but life.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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!

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

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

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

My whole life is a theater piece.

I love movement. I love moshing.

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.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

But, I’ve always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Life is precious.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.