You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

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!

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

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

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

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

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

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.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

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.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

As for my stuff, I’m just doing guest verses for other people’s records. I try to stay recording, because if I don’t, I get rusty.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I’ve stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Music is like film to me.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

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.