I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

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.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

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

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

All of my music is honest.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I don’t think a song should be put in a category.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

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.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

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

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

Before all else, be armed.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.