Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

There is spontaneity to my work.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

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.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

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

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

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

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

I love food.

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

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.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

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.

I only act from my heart.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

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

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.