U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.

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.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

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.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

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

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

One day, I’ll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it’s nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I’ve started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I’d be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

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.

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.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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 alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

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

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

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

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.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I can’t consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

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

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.