On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

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

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

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

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

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

I saw ‚Magic Mike,‘ and I thought it was great.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

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

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

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

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Rap was my drug.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

I can dance to just about anything.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

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

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

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

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

I like a drama.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

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.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.