I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

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.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Our work is never over.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

I am a grafter.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

When you’re all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Let me tell you something about Tunechi – about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn’t have a dollar in his pocket.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Too much TV hurts movies.

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

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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

During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn’t happen.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‚Mr. Belvedere,‘ too. We stay in touch.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.