I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

A great man is always willing to be little.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I’m ugly.

Being humble matters.

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.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that’s – those are humbling times, you know?

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

No one but a fool is always right.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.