You've always got to be aware of why you don't win; otherwise you'll keep losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the same mistake again.

There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me."

It's not so much what you do, it's just how well you do it, and that you do, do it.

Have confidence in yourself and don't let people put you down or make you feel weak or worthless, because the more they put you down, the more you need to get back up and prove how wrong they are.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.

I haven't prepared as much as I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.

There are so many people put there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me.

It's just... You sound like lorde. But like, with maple syrup.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives.

The [Bible’s] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

I don't know how perfect everybody is going to be in Heaven, but anyhow, certainly a lot better than here!

Crises in themselves are highly educational.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.