Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

I don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

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

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

I’m an iPod person.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I’ve stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn’t have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that – except I couldn’t afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

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

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

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.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I’m not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it’s really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

I’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.