You too are a brand. Whether you know it or not. Whether you like it or not.

You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.

When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.

Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

The more passionate and argumentative I get the more followers and friends I make online.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

While everybody is trying to be different, everybody becomes, obviously, the same, so it's finding what makes you special and then kind of sharing it with the world; it's what makes you a superstar.