It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I’d also say I’m really handsome – especially if they were a female alien.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

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.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

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.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

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.

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

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

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

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

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.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

So, do you live around here often?

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

The law is reason, free from passion.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

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.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.