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.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Imagination rules the world.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

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

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

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

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‚The Hornet’s Nest,‘ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.