Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Work while others are wishing.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

I was always keen to do a solo album. I just wanted it to be the right time and the right place so that I could actually work properly on the songs that I wanted to do before I got too old.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.