The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

You don't have to wait until something or someone is gone to appreciate the true value

You must practice the discipline of a champion before you win the actual contest. The appointment and opportunity must then come to confirm what you have already become.

I’ve worked with freshmen that were easier than this.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.

When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it