When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

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

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

There’s no formula.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

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.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‚Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do‘.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

I draw from the crowd a lot.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

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.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

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

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

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