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

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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

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.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

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

Rap was my drug.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

Love is only one of many passions.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

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

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

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.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

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 love things we love what they are.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

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

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.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

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

Music is in my DNA!

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.