Music Quotes

If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What's the difference?

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.