I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
My career has been my craziest adventure.
My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.
If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which they are placed.
I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.
I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to do it or you wouldn't be able to survive.
When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.
I am always mission driven, and I always ask myself what I want to be working on, what project excites me the most. I figure that out and then find the best place to do that work.
There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.
The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.
I don't get competitive, really. So I don't know. If I'm excited about something, hopefully someone will think, "Oh right, you should do this." And that's great. I'm not being very articulate about this. I just don't want to do stuff if I'm going to feel bummed out and uninspired.
Kings are but men, are subject to all the passions and frailties of human nature, and consequently are too prompt to grasp at arbitrary power, and to wish to make all things bend and submit to their will & pleasure.
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.
My passion for music has always inspired my designs.
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.
I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
