There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I got my buzz from playing.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I don’t get bored.

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

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

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.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

I can dance to just about anything.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

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

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

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.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Rap was my drug.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.