No, I can’t do rap music!

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Latin music is universal.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

I’m a painter in sound.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I like definitive things.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I like policy – call me a nerd.

There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

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

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can’t afford to own it. So it isn’t really part of their life in the way that music can be.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

I like Cardi B!

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

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.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

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

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.