What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.
That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
Do one thing today to move yourself towards a big goal. Repeat tomorrow, and the next day. You'll be surprised at how fast you'll attain it!
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
Revere the unity of all-that-is carry out your daily activities with compassion; if you do not limit your compassion, you yourself will not be limited.
Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.
When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.
With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.
Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you’ve got nothing left!
You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
