Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

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.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

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.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

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 kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

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

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

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.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

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.

I have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.

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.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

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 would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

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

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

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 can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

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.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

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

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Life is a song to me.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

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.

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.‘

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.