I really love the culture of hip-hop.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

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 love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

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.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

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

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

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.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

I like Cardi B!

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

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.

Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

Philosophy is the highest music.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

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

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

I’m putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

Love is only one of many passions.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

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.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.