Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Nobody’s indispensable.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you’ve got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky’s the limit.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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 solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

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

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Our best thoughts come from others.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.