I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

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.

At first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

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.

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

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

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.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

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.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

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

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Art is the proper task of life.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

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