Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

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

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

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

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

I just want to keep writing music.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

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

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I love movement. I love moshing.

I wanted to write.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

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’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I believe in singing.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Love is only one of many passions.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

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

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

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

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I’m not going to freak out about it. I’m not that bad. I’m certainly not a boy, and it’s been a while since I’ve been a chef.

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.

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.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

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

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.