Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

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

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

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

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

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.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

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.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

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 just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

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.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I make good music for long journeys.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

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.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

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.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

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

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

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.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

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

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

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.

It doesn’t bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they’re looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.