Quotes About Passion

I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started selling records, it was an incredible, strange dream.

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.

We'd really like for BlizzCon to be something that the people who really really want to go, if this is something you're really passionate about, you want to be here at BlizzCon, we'd like it to be possible for you to get here. When we are selling out in a couple seconds, it's really not possible for a lot of people that really want to come.

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

Whatever I do, whether it sells or not, at least I mean it at the time and I'm honest about it. Which I think is the only way to be.

Yeah, you will hear from people that my passion will sometimes result in a very effervescent or sometimes excitable senior executive.

I made a quote-unquote 'album' for my senior project of high school. As soon as I finished making it I realized it wasn't the kind of music I wanted to make.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

So I never wanted to be an actor anyway, so I only do the films which appeal to me and my sensibility.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.

My only problem is that I'm too sensitive about my movies. I feel each of them has to work and consider every film as my last one.

My approach has always been rather sensual.

Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.

Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

My only sentiment is to win.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.