The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

The mind is the mine of man, wherein he digs out good or evil.

Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals.

That failure serves a purpose!

Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof.

Sooner or later, the man who learnt lessons from his failures will be the one to be sought first for guidance, counsel and formula on how to be successful in life's endeavours.

Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better.

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find it beautiful.

I love my jazz hands!

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.