Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

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

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

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.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I love movement. I love moshing.

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

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I’m crepuscular.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

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.

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

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.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

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

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I just want to keep writing music.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

The law is reason, free from passion.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

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

I was brought up to understand Darwin’s theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

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.

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.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Football is all about fans.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

I’ve seen a look in dogs‘ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

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

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

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

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.