My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

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

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

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.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

When I do listen to music, I’m more prone to listen to the people I’ve always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

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

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

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

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

As for my stuff, I’m just doing guest verses for other people’s records. I try to stay recording, because if I don’t, I get rusty.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.