Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

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

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‚Hey, I wrote a song.‘

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.

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

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the ‚perreos‘ of Plan B.

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 really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

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

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

An operatic voice is like no other.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

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

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

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.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

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.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

The world remains ever the same.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

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

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

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

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

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

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.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

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

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.