My style influences my music and everything around me.

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 think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

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’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

All of my music is honest.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

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

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

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

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

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

We uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

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

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

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.

No great thing is created suddenly.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

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.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Young people can create beautiful things.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.