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.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows of making an appearance every now and then and writing music and I don't really have to do much else.

Men are wary of me because they know by listening to my music that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

I'd call what I do pop music but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured such as poetry music painting public speaking.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

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.

If you like my music great and if you don't whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

It was all about music about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me because it's a good earned feeling now.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

Music is your guide.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music it's really fun.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music the ups and downs of the audience.

When you actually like each other it translates to the music.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking or maybe thinking is another kind of music.