Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

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.‘

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

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 always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

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.

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

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Football is unconditional love.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‚divine service.‘

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

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.

Let the path be open to talent.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

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

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Love is only one of many passions.

Rap was my drug.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

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’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.