I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'….

I know a lot of people connect with my story. Every night that I do shows, I get emails and texts and tweets about how my life story has helped chang….

I would say my relationships have always affected my music. Each one. I wrote most of my great songs, that I'm still using today, in 2008 when I had ….

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear..

You rock so, you rock so, you dip so, you dip so, you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag! You come so, you come so, for reggae is another b….

I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" l….

I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to ….

Sing songs that none have sung.

If you listen to my record, I'm just honest about stupid stuff most normal people wouldn't put in a pop song..

There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their fac….

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing..

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, an….

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of fee….

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a wr….

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on..

Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either s….

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without ….

I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Sa….

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall i….

You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost for a ….

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody..