Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

Rap was my drug.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Well done is better than well said.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

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

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.