Quotes About Achievement

I didn't even go to graduation.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift.

When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.

I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

I think every artist should go for a Grammy.

I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'

I've been to the Grammy's several times for my past nominations and it has always a fun experience.

Ridin' was natural, not forced. I didn't try to make a Grammy record.

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.

There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.

Never in my life have I thought, 'Man, I gotta get a Grammy.'

I want every Grammy.

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

I daydream about Backstreet Boys accepting a Grammy one day.

One of the first country artists I got to work with was Carrie Underwood at the Grammy Awards.

If I get a Grammy, that would be dope.

I like the story about Bon Iver. They said he kept his GRAMMY in, like, the basement bathroom so he could just focus on getting another one. If I won a GRAMMY, I'd probably keep it at my mom's house on 47th Street.

Winning a Grammy is always going to be good.

I'm not going to lie: I'd love to win a Grammy.

I've been able to win a Grammy and then to come back and get the key to the city of Watts.

If I needed money, I wouldn't sell $5 t-shirts. I'd sell a Grammy or an MTV award.

My goal is a Grammy so my songs will have to be good.