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.

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!

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

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

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

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

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

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.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

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

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

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.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

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

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

Rock ‚n‘ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

My nails are my rhythm section when I’m writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

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

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

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

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

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

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘