Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

When I do listen to music, I’m more prone to listen to the people I’ve always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

I love movement. I love moshing.

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.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

I am such a political person.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

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

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

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.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.