I'd really like to have my own style of game and be known as Jason Spezza, not a Mario Lemieux or Wayne Gretzky 'clone.'

You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.

My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.

You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.

The hype that follows me doesn't bug me. I expect more out of myself than anyone else does, that's for sure.

I didn't want to be cut, but it made me a better person and a better player.

If I ever have a chance to become a top-notch guy on a top team, I think that's more valuable than anything else.

Live in your dream and then make it your reality.

The future can never lie about the past. In the end, you will see the beginning.

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

Art will always be art.

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.