Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘

We don’t make music – it makes us.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

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 knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

Latin music is universal.

A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

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

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

Music is in my DNA!

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.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

Rock ‚n‘ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

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

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I became a beach bum.

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.