Ne-Yo Quotes

I lived to write, and wrote to live.

I love writing, and I am one of the people who can do it and make a living.

Now I'm at the Premier League and help my family. That's all that matters.

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

I get a great high from writing.

I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.

What I really, really love is writing. If I can just write and make a really nice living out of that, why would I change that?

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

My work gave me everything and allowed me to live out my passion.

That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

I don't fight for my legacy or for the glory or anything like that. The feedback from the fans is nice, don't get me wrong; it's a good feeling having them - you on their side. But I'm motivated by making a good living for my family, and that's what made me get serious about this.