Max Martin Quotes

Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

I just keep on playing what I love.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

Working with someone who's really passionate about it is great, because you become passionate, and then it's fun; it's not work anymore.

If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.

I was never in this for the money. It's all about the passion for the music.

If you're in it for the money, there is no way you will ever make it! Never. That's not going to get you there at all. I just made fun video with my friends. That's the key.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

Music inspires me.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.