Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

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.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

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?

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Love is only one of many passions.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

My music is a luxury.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

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 don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

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

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

In this experiment, made on the 9th of October, 1876, actual conversation, backwards and forwards, upon the same line, and by the same instruments reciprocally used, was successfully carried on for the first time upon a real line of miles in length.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

I do think that we’re gonna move towards this world where eventually you’ll be able to capture a whole experience that you’re in and be able to send that to someone.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

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.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

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

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.