When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

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

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

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’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

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.

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 believe in singing.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I wanted to write.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

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

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

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

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

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.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Football is all about fans.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don’t sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

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.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.