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

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

Every album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.

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 charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

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

For the chorus of ‚Secrets,‘ we used The Romantics‘ ‚Talking in Your Sleep‘ and ‚Pale Shelter‘ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

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.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

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

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

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

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

I dislike the concept of ‚chic‘ being the highest compliment for a human being. I’d rather someone be nice than to be chic.

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

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

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