I learned that hard work is everything. As long as you keep working, keep working and keep working, you will get where you wanna go.

As an artist, to release music is what you look forward to. That's what everybody looks forward to when they sign a deal. It feels really good to know I'm actually working towards a release date.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

The power others have to upset us and to steer us off our path is the power we gave to them.

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.

I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.