What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Rap was my drug.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It’s inevitable.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

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.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

With music, you often don’t have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don’t know why.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

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.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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.

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there’s a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

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

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Music is really driving my whole life.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

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

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.