Life Quotes

Don't make your career be your life. Let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

My voice was the conductor of my life.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan - we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert - but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go.

I've made two 'discoveries' in my life: Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono. I think that's a pretty damned good choice.

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.