I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I want people to draw strength from me.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.