We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

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

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 when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

It’s a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That’s where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

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.‘

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.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

I love being a part of the country-music community.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

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 always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

I just want to keep writing music.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

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.

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

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.

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.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

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 didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

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

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

All of my music is honest.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

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.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

I don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn’t even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.

I hate the idea of genres.

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

It’s terrifying to play your favorite band’s song in front of your favorite band.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

One of my most popular songs, ‚Satellites,‘ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.