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

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

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.

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

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.

With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.

We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.