People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana… plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

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

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

I’ve started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I’d be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

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

I was a super once – an extra – in ‚Die Fledermaus,‘ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

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.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

I’m the king of the anthems.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

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

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.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

One day, I’ll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it’s nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

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.

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

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

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.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Because you have things like ‚American Idol‘ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

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.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.