My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

I believe in singing.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

There is no wealth but life.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

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 need drama in my life to keep making music.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

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

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

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

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.