I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

Nobody’s indispensable.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn’t see a space in which we could get anything together.

Recently partnered with Express Men as a brand ambassador, so my closet is full of the new fashion trends and styles that keep me fresh for games.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.