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

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

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

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I love Velveeta cheese.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

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

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

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

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.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I am results-oriented.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

What one has to do usually can be done.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

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.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.