Faith Hill is a big role model.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

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

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

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.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

To create something you must be something.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Imagination decides everything.

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

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.