My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

I’ve started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I’d be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

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

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

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

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, ‚What kind of music do you make?‘, and you say, ‚Pop music.‘ You may as well have ‚I’m not cool‘ stamped on your forehead.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Someone did a graphic of me in my jersey, and Jordan, they dubbed him guarding me, and Kanye’s face was on both of us. That’s my favorite meme of all time – or so far to-date. I’m gonna have to get that blown up on my wall or something.

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

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.