Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.