Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple. — Bruno Mars

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

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

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

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words. — Bruno Mars

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that’s the secret of all the success that’s happened (for me). — Bruno Mars

Doo–wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody–driven and captures emotions. — Bruno Mars

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there. — Bruno Mars

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

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

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

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. The music I like are events. — Bruno Mars

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

Doo–wop’ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo–wop music. — Bruno Mars

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That’s how this works. That’s how music is created. — Bruno Mars

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from a special place. There are no tricks. — Bruno Mars

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free. — Bruno Mars

I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do. — Bruno Mars

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it. — Bruno Mars

Thank you guys so much. this is dedicated to the fans. we wouldn’t be up here if it wasn’t for the people dancing to this song. — Bruno Mars

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‘This is a world smash!’ when I finish a song. — Bruno Mars

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks. — Bruno Mars

I can put some chords together and maybe write a song, but I’m learning every day. And that’s the fun part. — Bruno Mars

I’m a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker’s ‘You Are So Beautiful’ and Eric Clapton’s ‘Wonderful Tonight’–songs that go straight to the point. — Bruno Mars

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I’m not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song. — Bruno Mars

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs. — Bruno Mars

In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home. — Bruno Mars

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute. — Bruno Mars

Nothin’ on You’ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip–hop and singing. — Bruno Mars

The drumming helps a lot when I’m producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don’t know, man; I’m not great at any of them. — Bruno Mars

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song. — Bruno Mars

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get! — Bruno Mars

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do–to sit down and say how you feel. — Bruno Mars

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

As proud as I am of Doo–Wops I feel like, ‘Oh, man. People haven’t seen nothing. They don’t even know what I’m about to do,’ and that’s what I can’t wait to show the world. — Bruno Mars

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

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

If perfect’s what you’re searching for, then just stay the same. — Bruno Mars

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn? — Bruno Mars

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan. — Bruno Mars

I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music. — Bruno Mars

I want a woman to love me for me and not just for my piggly diggly…You catch my drift? — Bruno Mars

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why. — Bruno Mars

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

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery. — Bruno Mars

I was perfect for the circus. If she dared me, I’d do it. Love makes you stupid — Bruno Mars

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, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me. — Bruno Mars