The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

God made me and broke the mold.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I’ve learned never to say never.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

We all have done something unethical.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

As you think, so shall you become.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Fear is exciting for me.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Only the insecure strive for security.

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.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.