Quotes About Purpose

When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.

I want to live my life on full. I want to die empty, whatever that means - giving myself to my three kids now, giving myself to love or a relationship, giving myself to my career, devoting myself to being a healthy person. I have to give my full self to something, because that's what makes me feel alive.

We are not supposed to die until we are empty.

I really don't want to encourage young people to think that life is about money only. Life is about being able to give yourself choice.

Ambition never comes to an end.

What are you going to do if you have all the money in the world and all the things that you wanted to achieve in your business and you have no one to share it with? You come home alone at the end of the day. And then what?

It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

Enemies are dispirited when they see you happy. They know their purpose can be thwarted.

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

I never wanted to be an engineer.

I'm involved in so many cool and interesting and redeeming things. I'm enjoying every day.

Enjoying myself is something very important for me because that is why I play when all is said and done. And it also allows me to have an engine.

Ultimately, I'm enjoying what I'm doing.

Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.

If you're not enjoying your work, what's the point?

I live and work for the pure enjoyment of being alive.

I thought 'Benson' was going to be more of an ensemble show. But it was called 'Benson' for a reason.

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning in my life. That's what my music was about. It wasn't to entertain.

You know, when you make the show, honestly, it's to entertain, but it's to win. So what's the point to make the show and lose actually?