The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Strangely, some songs you really don’t want to write.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

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

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

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.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

Change in all things is sweet.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

All I do is make music.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you’re not going to get played on radio, and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Money does not change people, people change.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Change alone is unchanging.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Probably the reason it’s a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you’re getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you’re going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there’s a kind of bundle.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

I put together amazing records, whether that’s finding the beat or putting the right hook on there, and picking the right artists on the record. That’s me being an A&R. And I’m making sure that they give me their best.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.