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

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Dream and you shall become.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

A Khaled record is always the best.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I can dance to just about anything.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

So many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.