Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

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.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

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

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I’m not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn’t come from your spirit and your soul, it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

I’m an inventor.