When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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

You can’t trust very many people.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Men want to make women happy.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

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.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

Great loves too must be endured.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

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.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

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

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

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

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.