The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you.

When you learn to harness the power of your fears it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams.

Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

Everything you know could already be wrong.

There's an ocean of music out there and there's absolutely no curation for it.

After three albums, you should shoot your producer

You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

In this lifetime, you got two things: Bad and good, and ain't nothin' in between.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already lost their faith, and something about my books encouraged them to affirm that.

She's Beyoncé, and I'm [Jay-Z's] new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.