There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

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.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

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

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

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

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’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

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.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Love is an interesting thing.

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 like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

A ‚scream‘ is always just that – a noise and not music.

I like Cardi B!

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

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

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

William Maxwell’s my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for ‚The New Yorker‘ called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in ‚The New Yorker‘ in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did – about emotions and places.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

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

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

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.

‚Jolene‘ has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

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

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.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

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.‘

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

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

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

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!

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.