Quotes

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

I couldn't buy my way - I had to work my way. What a great quote: 'I couldn't buy my way into success, I had to work my way into success.'

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

I have so many great memories of the wrestling business. I've worked real hard to get to the top, and how many flukes and breaks to have happened that had allowed me to have the success that I did.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.

To be the best in a tournament like the World Cup is a success for me personally.

I'm one of the most successful adult movie directors in the business.

Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.

Our ambition isn't just to be big, it's to be listened to and supported by people. And to have the success - if we deserve it, of course.

I don't want to have success to have success.

Even though I had success on the court, I didn't love being out there alone.

In my professional tennis career, I had much more success in doubles.

I have batted at No. 7 for Karnataka also and I have had my success. It's a role that I enjoy.

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

Free trade and economic stability do not, by themselves, guarantee success.

The history of Test cricket will suggest if you hold the top of off longer than anyone else you will have success, in England particularly it's about owning the top of off.

As players we just want to be successful and play in major tournaments.

What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I could make a success there, I could even be perhaps accepted into it, but I would never feel it was my place. It's the summit of something else. It's distilled Englishness.