An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.

When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

A labor of love always pays off.

To envision what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is.

Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?

If I could uncover what beliefs and values control me, I can literally redesign me.

Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

In ramp skating, theres this guy Alex Perelson whos really coming into his own and doing some amazing new stuff we havent seen before. Just different types of spin.