Quotes About Dedication

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

I have to continue to make the older musicians proud and brush up on my skills.

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.

I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

Our first job is to go out there and fight - not to do backflips or have a mustache.

I did two records with DJ Mustard. They were stupid, like, crazy hits, so we just kept on working, and we did a whole project together, so we got that coming.

I would never shortchange an audience. I believe in doing every single performance with as much integrity and concentration and feeling as I can muster.

I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.

You can't deny a band whose fans will literally do anything to see them win the awards. We're very appreciative to the fan base. That mutual feeling of appreciation is something that really helps.

Every single second of extra time to work with other actors has definitely always, for me, paid off for the film. For the project. Every single extra heartbeat you could get, mutually considering the scene, was of benefit.

Hey, I've been doing what I do for a long time, my friend.

My friend Harry Belafonte is an activist and musician, an extraordinary man who has dedicated his life to human rights. He taught me the power of words and that music can be used to heal and educate people.

One of my friend calls me 'lost to showbiz', but that's only because I don't go for a drink as often as he'd like, because I'm always working. I've met very few famous people who are lost to showbiz - I have met some, mind.

Eighteen years doing this, my friend. Eighteen years - combat sport. I think you will not find this in history, I believe.

I always watch Chelsea games when I have the time and step-by -step, game-by-game, Chelsea is growing. I speak with Branislav Ivanovic, my friend and international team-mate a lot, a few times each month, so I know everything about the club.

The ultimate sports figure. The ultimate competitor. Great person. I consider him my friend. I wouldn't be that good if I was Michael Jordan.

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you.

My generation were all careerists.

My generation, we came along, we had to really know our craft.

My generation was advised to focus on one area to excel.

I've had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He's probably the greatest athlete in my generation.

I don't have any high aims or goals, but I hope to continue my journey of multi-tasking as I have been doing so far as an actor, dancer, and also serving people of the nation.