There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

What I took back because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers like Frank Sinatra and myself we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written we go back to the greatest songs.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans but no critics darling.

Music is the language of the heart and conservatives always screw it up.

When I grew up what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling fountains splashing. Weirs waterfalls tumbling gushing.

People always try to find my agenda but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop but I think that I'm doing important music too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Oh I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am my views my perspective things I love things I hate my convictions my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

For instance I'm always fascinated to see whether given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting existing as material in space not immaterial in time.

Yeah I've been interested in music since I was a teenager always writing songs.

As a boy I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care but at Christmas it always is young the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair and its soul full of music breaks the air when the song of angels is sung.

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