Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Because I’m not in a record deal, I don’t have to operate in an album format.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I’m the king of the anthems.

I’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don’t have no exit strategy. It’s just living in the false reality that it’s going to be like this forever.

I like Cardi B!

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

I’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.