I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

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.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

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

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

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

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

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

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

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

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

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

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

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

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

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Music is in my DNA!

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

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

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

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

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.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I built a company at the same time I built a career.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

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

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

Football is unconditional love.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.