Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

There is no education like adversity.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

No driver is perfect.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Nothing endures but change.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

I need to know how many records I’ve sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we’re gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Africa is on the rise.

I’m not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I’m passionate about. I’m finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, ’90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I’m very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it’s received well, and it has been so far.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Children always turn to the light.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

Our nation must come together to unite.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.