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.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

I just want to be myself.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I do my job like I breathe.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

In the future, you won’t buy artists‘ works; you’ll buy software that makes original pieces of ‚their‘ works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Success is the child of audacity.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

I can express myself.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I can do whatever I want.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Alternative R&B is in my soul. It’s not going anywhere.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Always do whatever’s next.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.