1. “Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights.” – Bruno Mars
2. “You know I’d do anything for you.” – Bruno Mars
3. “Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.” – Bruno Mars
4. “It’s about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. And one day you’re going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!” – Bruno Mars
5. “You’re amazing, just the way you are.” – Bruno Mars
6. “I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Markley is on the radio every single day.” – Bruno Mars
7. “You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he’s showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it’s confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn’t feel like he deserves to be there.” – Bruno Mars
8. “I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.” – Bruno Mars
9. “I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.” – Bruno Mars
10. “You made me feel like, I’ve been locked outta heaven.” – Bruno Mars
11. “I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.” – Bruno Mars
12. “I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with ‘It sounds good!’ It’s got to be more than sounding good.” – Bruno Mars
13. “Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson.” – Bruno Mars
14. “Everyday I wake up next to an angel more beautiful than words could say” – Bruno Mars
15. “You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.” – Bruno Mars
16. “I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.” – Bruno Mars
17. “There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.” – Bruno Mars
18. “Standing at this liquor store, whiskey coming through my pores, feeling like I run this whole block” – Bruno Mars
19. “Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line.” – Bruno Mars
20. “When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.” – Bruno Mars
21. “I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.” – Bruno Mars
22. “But I wouldn’t have done all the things that I have done if I knew one day you would come.” – Bruno Mars
23. “I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‘This is a world smash!’ when I finish a song.” – Bruno Mars
24. “When it’s your time, it is your time.” – Bruno Mars
25. “My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.” – Bruno Mars
26. “Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.” – Bruno Mars
27. “You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.” – Bruno Mars
28. “This ones for you and me, living out our dreams. We’re all right where we should be.” – Bruno Mars
29. “My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.” – Bruno Mars
30. “If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea, I’ll sail the world to find you. If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can’t see, I’ll be the light to guide you.” – Bruno Mars
31. “I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do—to sit down and say how you feel.” – Bruno Mars
32. “I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted.” – Bruno Mars
33. “Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.” – Bruno Mars
34. “Be in control. Know who you are. And don’t try to be different just to be different.” – Bruno Mars
35. “I feel it’s my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists.” – Bruno Mars
36. “My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.” – Bruno Mars
37. “Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.” – Bruno Mars
38. “No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.” – Bruno Mars
39. “I want a woman to love me for me and not just for my piggly diggly…You catch my drift?” – Bruno Mars
40. “In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.” – Bruno Mars
41. “I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.” – Bruno Mars
42. “And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while.” – Bruno Mars
43. “If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.” – Bruno Mars
44. “My goals are – I don’t need much. I’m a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I’m having fun doing music, I’m happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I’m really happy.” – Bruno Mars
45. “If you ever forget how much you really mean to me, Every day I will remind you.” – Bruno Mars
46. “I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.” – Bruno Mars
47. “Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I’m going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It’s always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.” – Bruno Mars
48. “You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!” – Bruno Mars
49. “I missed the first train, stood out in the rain all day (little did I know) but I caught the next train, and there you were to sweep me away. Guess that’s what I waited for.” – Bruno Mars
50. “I was perfect for the circus. If she dared me, I’d do it. Love makes you stupid” – Bruno Mars
51. “If perfect’s what you’re searching for, then just stay the same.” – Bruno Mars
52. “Tell the devil I said hey when you get back to where you’re from.” – Bruno Mars
53. “My pride, my ego, my needs and my selfish ways caused a good strong woman like you to walk out my life. Now I’ll never, never get to clean up the mess I made, and that haunts me every time I close my eyes.” – Bruno Mars
54. “My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, and my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.” – Bruno Mars
55. “I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.” – Bruno Mars
56. “You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it.” – Bruno Mars
57. “I know you’re somewhere out there, somewhere far away. I want you back, I want you back.” – Bruno Mars
58. “I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.” – Bruno Mars
59. “Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I’ve wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It’s all I know.” – Bruno Mars
60. “Treasure, that is what you are.” – Bruno Mars
61. “I don’t like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.” – Bruno Mars
62. “You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.” – Bruno Mars
63. “You know I’d never ask you to change. If perfect’s what you’re searching for, then just stay the same.” – Bruno Mars
64. “Someone told me something that stuck with me ‘You have to envision your life, and then go backward.’ I’ve been living by that motto for a while.” – Bruno Mars
65. “I think that success is having fun.” – Bruno Mars
66. “Oh, I would go through all this pain. Take a bullet straight through my brain. Yes, I would die for you, baby.” – Bruno Mars
67. “What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different and that they’ll grow as I do.” – Bruno Mars
68. “I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.” – Bruno Mars
69. “I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.” – Bruno Mars
70. “To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.” – Bruno Mars
71. “When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change ’cause you’re are amazing just the way you are.” – Bruno Mars
72. “Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.” – Bruno Mars
73. “I am so proud and so happy to be Filipino.” – Bruno Mars
74. “I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.” – Bruno Mars
75. “Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.” – Bruno Mars