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

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

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

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

I do my job like I breathe.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

I love being in a courtroom.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

My whole life is a theater piece.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

I’m a showgirl, as you can tell. I’m ever ready.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Delay is preferable to error.

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.

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

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.