Quotes About Talent

When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.

People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'm filming, I'm like, 'No, this is my favorite,' and when I'm writing music and recording and performing, it's like, 'This is definitely it.'

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

I've always loved music and loved recording.

Money definitely does not equal success in recording.

I remember the first time hearing a recording from Minton's Playhouse; it was Charlie Christian and a young Dizzy Gillespie, and he was just the best musician in the room.

I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.

I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?

I joined my father for recordings when I was 11 or so. By then, I could play a dozen instruments. My first professional recording was around that time. I played the vibraphone for Shankar-Ganesh in a Tamil film.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

Snooker has taken such a step down I am not sure it will recover unless five Ronnie O'Sullivans come along at the same time.

Obviously if there is a Chinese player that has the quality and the ability we will certainly be looking to recruit.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

You're in pro football, it's kind of interesting, because when you win, you draft last. In college football, you recruit. You gotta go after guys.

Since I was the No. 1 recruit I heard a lot of similar stuff like that, LeBron James comparisons. You definitely have to respect what he's accomplished in this league.

Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don't recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.

Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.