The thickest sweats produce the sweetest life. A hard work surely brings unheard happiness. Dig up your gold.

It takes sharper axes to chops bigger trees just as it takes deeper enthusiasm to overcome stronger challenges. Timidity only increases your fears.

Whatever you have not strived hard to achieve will not strive hard to fade. Success built on hard work is the kind that lasts longer.

Change won’t happen because everyone wishes it happens. It happens only when people decide that we’ll never stop digging until we find our gold.

Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold.

Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.

Many little steps joined one after the other is what makes success possible. Keep doing little stuffs every day. Don’t give up!

We're like goldfields. Until we dig deep to find what's inside us, our true potentials may be hidden forever.

Be careful when rising to the top. Be more careful when you get there. The higher you go, the riskier it gets. Be careful. Be very careful.

As long as you want the belt, don’t run away from the fight. Do what it takes to win the battles you face.

Those who are growing great are always asking “why?” If they fail or lose, they ask “why?” If they succeed or win too, they ask “why?

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.

I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

who are the brain police?

Especially with music, people want confidence.

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.