Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Hope is a waking dream.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Let the path be open to talent.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

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.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

To create something you must be something.

Think and grow rich.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘