John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.

I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.

Choosing a job or business is the same thing. I'm not the best one to advise someone how to make billions of dollars; I don't know how to do that. But what I do know is how to create something that you love, and once you do that, you will have success. You just will because you'll love working on it, and anything truly authentic, the universe blesses.

I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

I've always been fussier than I can afford to be. I don't just want to do whatever it takes to be successful, I want to do what I consider to be good stuff. If I'm not engaged in something, it doesn't matter what it is and who's doing it.

You can't really ask for anything more than to be working for your entire life - and to be doing something that some people respond to.

Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

I'm not a one-hit wonder who got lucky. This really is my life. I was born with this talent, and this is what I meant to be. I'm totally grateful.

I'm going to do anything in my power to keep creating the path that I want to go down and I want to be a part of and be involved with, and whether or not that means superstardom or making music for the rest of my life and not having to work at a coffee shop, I'm fine. I'm happy. I'm stoked for whatever opportunity arises.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

As long as I'm building and doing what I want to do, that's the only thing that matters.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing — the characters, the story, the words, the themes — and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.