When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

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.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

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.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

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.

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

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‚Hey, I wrote a 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.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

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

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.