Quotes About Success

I always think about when I was a kid, and I didn't have anything, and now I get to see my son live a good life.

I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

My son's a big John Cena fan and obviously a big fan of mine who is very proud of everything I'm accomplishing.

There are projects I've done, such as 'Queen,' where I played Halle Berry and Danny Glover's son, where I'm so extremely proud of the work that I did that I will sit down and watch that any time.

My son gave me the permission to accept my success.

I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.

Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

Dhanush has been a fan of my father since his childhood. They share mutual respect for each other. Also, the fact that Dhanush made it big on his own and not because he is someone's son-in-law is something my father deeply admires.

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I've never made a bad song.

My goal is to get my music out to as many people as possible. That a song of mine is being played on the radio so far away from home really, really pushes me. It's everything I've dreamed of.

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

I always knew 'My Dawg' would be a hit, but I didn't even know what a hit was. When I made the song I knew it sounded hard.

I knew 'Ojuelegba' was a good song, but I didn't expect it to blow up the way that it did.

It's such a cycle. You'll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he's gone.

Salman Khan gave me a break, and that proved to be a boon. By the grace of God, my first song was a blockbuster.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

When I sang in 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne,' I never imagined the song would be such a rage.

When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

While the concert is instant communication with the audience, composing is a creative process where a song comes up out of nowhere and then transmits happiness to many, translates into money, fame, or whatever.

I think that every song has to be like it could be the biggest hit of my album.