You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Be yourself, let you come through.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Everything you can imagine is real.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

They alone live, who live for others.