The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.

All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need.

If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.

Stage time, stage time, stage time.

To be the best, learn from the best

Change is a sheep in wolf's clothing

The audience wants you present, not perfect.

You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...

There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.

Behind bad luck comes good luck.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas.

One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.