From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

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

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

One man with courage is a majority.

I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

A chorus is not easy.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.