I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

To make headway, improve your head.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

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.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

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

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

From caring comes courage.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.