I’m a writer first and a singer second.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

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

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

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.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

I can dance to just about anything.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

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.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

And as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, ‚I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.‘

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Rap was my drug.

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

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?