I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

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 didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

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

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Love is only one of many passions.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

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

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.