I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I learned from the guys before me – Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

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

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

In art the best is good enough.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

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.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

I’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

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

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.