My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn’t want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn’t supposed to be able to draw – isn’t that wonderful – so I made up a false name.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

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.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Think off-center.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

A good song never gets old.

Music is in my DNA!

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

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.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

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.

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.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to ‚get‘ any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

Young people can create beautiful things.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

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

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

I call architecture frozen music.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.