We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Think and grow rich.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I believe in singing.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

I love Wiz Khalifa.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I’ve always tended to write songs prolifically.

The vibe on ‚Starboy‘ comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

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.