You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

I never played with anything like toys.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

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.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Because you have things like ‚American Idol‘ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

When my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

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

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I always wanted a family.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.