J. Cole Quotes

I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.

I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.

People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

I feel like every great record is like a world in itself.

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.

I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.

The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.

When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.

Darwin says people like you need to die.” (Carrow)

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.

You've maddened me for you...have changed everything. So, I'm going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I'm to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well.

Emma turned to him, bottom lip trembling. “For me?” “Always for you. All things for you. He coughed into his fist “All your own.

What’s your favorite place to visit?” He absently answered, “Wherever you are.” “Bowen, five things about you can’t all be about me.” But you’re the only good thing that I’ve got.

I said alone!”He nodded in agreement. “Aye, you usually say that, and I still stay. It’s our way.

If someday you should ever think of me and miss me, know in your heart that I'd want you to find me once again. No matter how distant in time or space... FIND ME.

I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.

So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate, but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter, If finely-wrought talentsdon’t weigh in the balance, I can always write haiku on Twitter.

Nature is bent on new beginningand death has not a chance of winning...

As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change – from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he s

Nix had told Emma before she'd left for Europe that on this trip she would 'do that which you were born to do.' Apparently, Emma was born to get kidnapped by a deranged Lykae. Her fate sucked.

She'd made him watch every Alien movie. Most of the goriest scenes were accompanied by his dialogue: 'Ach, that's no' - that's just no' right.... Bloody hell, this canna be right.

She stretched, pulling out her earbuds, which apparently in Lykae was code for 'Interogate me, ' because the questions, they came a-calling.

Jackson asked, "Where'd the water come from in your house?""A pipe." Then he explained to Jackson, "Water travels in pipes.

When Matthew merely stared at him, Jackson reached into the weapon box and pulled out a sheathed machete, handing it to the boy.Matthew laughed and dropped it.

Take chances! Get messy! Make mistakes!

Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves, offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

You think you've forgotten how to dream, " he said, "but really...you're just waiting for the right dream.

Now you're just being silly. He's a mercenary- he's not going to go about penning love letters, and really, what would he write? 'Anna...love you...grrr?'" Olivia to Annalia

Torture?” she asked with a laugh. “My first piece of information I’ll divulge to you? I wouldn’t recommend trying to torture me. I dislike it and grow sulky under pincers.It’s a fault.

They desecrate Riora’s sacred temple! She will be enraged.”“Oh, gods, look at the marble. We are all beyond doomed.”“Somebody put a plant in front of it!

You dress her in a wet T-shirt and make her carry the bags? Damn, Cade, I like how you roll" - Rok