Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

I can dance to just about anything.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I realized I was a country person – I’m just not used to small spaces.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I love food.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

It’s rural America. It’s where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I like being a writer.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

We love things we love what they are.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.