I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

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.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

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

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

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

I came, I saw, I conquered.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

I’m a painter in sound.