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.

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

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

People want you to fail.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.