[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.

Stupid Wars are easy to start but hard to end.

When Lisa awoke she was back in the cell on the floor covered in her own blood, dirt, and urine. And that was only day 1.

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more

You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.

The idea that you can contribute is really important, especially for a kid.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

Genuine love will always feel urged to communicate joy - to be a joy-giver. Mankind needs joy.