You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I only act from my heart.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

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.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Well begun is half done.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I was an overnight sensation.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

I need physics more than friends.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.