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.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

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.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I really am a fan of Ye’s music.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

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

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. 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.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

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.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

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.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

A lot of the records you buy, there’s nothing you can hold in your hand, it’s all 1’s and 0’s, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

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

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!

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

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

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

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.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

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.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

My whole life, I’ve sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I’ve had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.

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’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

‚House of Balloons‘ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

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.

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.

I can dance to just about anything.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

The vibe on ‚Starboy‘ comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

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