An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

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.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Football is all about fans.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Many admire, few know.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

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.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do 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.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

I like to work.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

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 remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.