Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I can dance to just about anything.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

One of my most popular songs, ‚Satellites,‘ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Success is not a stop sign.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Big results require big ambitions.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I love being in a courtroom.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

If you ever see young artists, and they’re not sounding good, they sound good. They’re good singers. They wouldn’t be where they are if they didn’t sound good. It’s their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he’s or she’s screwing up or not hitting those notes, it’s not because she can’t hit it or she can’t sing; he or she is scared.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.