Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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

I do my job like I breathe.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

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.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

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.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

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.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

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.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

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