This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

“I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.”

Is this the real life Is this just fantasy Caught in a landslide No escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy Because I'm easy come, easy go; little high, little low anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me To me.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.