People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‚Encore.‘ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Philosophy is the highest music.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

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.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

All of my music is honest.

As for my stuff, I’m just doing guest verses for other people’s records. I try to stay recording, because if I don’t, I get rusty.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.