As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don’t have no exit strategy. It’s just living in the false reality that it’s going to be like this forever.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I’m a producer. I’m a writer.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

I just want to keep writing music.

The reason I don’t tour is that I don’t know how to front a band. What would I do? I can’t really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

I think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

I like Cardi B!

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time – it’s very routine. I’m not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it’s cool; it’s good for me.

Don’t you love it that Prince doesn’t use Twitter? Don’t you think he’s somewhere on a unicorn?

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

In wrestling, there’s a shelf life, and some wrestlers don’t pay attention to the shelf life.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I didn’t watch ‚The A-Team‘ movie. I’m an artist. You can’t re-paint a Rembrandt. You can’t duplicate that; I don’t care who you get.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

I’m the king of the anthems.