Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it.

Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

I still wonder what made him leave. Were they my demons or his own?

The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]

If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new

I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.