The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

‚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.

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

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you’re into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

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

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.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

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

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I believe in singing.

It’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

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.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Mine is better than ours.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

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

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

I’m putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

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’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.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

I just want to keep writing music.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

An operatic voice is like no other.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

But, I’ve always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

My music is a luxury.