#music

"I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine."

"Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that love: is like a rock, is here to stay, is all you need, will find a way, will keep us together, will tear us apart, sucks."

"I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things."

"There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form."

"I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless."

"There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship."

"Passion is a deep love for sacred activity."

"I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend."

"Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."

"Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures."

"Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?"

"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you."

"And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make."

"Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head."

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss."

"I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side."

"We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that."

"People haven't always been there for me but music always has."

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."