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.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

The law is reason, free from passion.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Love is only one of many passions.

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

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

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.

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 just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

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.

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

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

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

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

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

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

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.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

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.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

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

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She’s incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she’s effective.

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

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

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.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

If you wish to be a writer, write.