There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

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

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

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

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

My life is mine to remember.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.