Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!

Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.

You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.

Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror

Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency! Consistency!

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.

Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

My focus is on the rhythmic relationship between body and ground and the visual relationships among the elements of the always-changing scene.

Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

But who are you?" Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?

Nobody did nothin' to nobody.