“You’re responsible for your journey in life, no one else. You have to know the destination to go there. Others can help show you the way, but no one can take you there.”

“The key to success is not hard work, it is love.”

“Hard work is the best talent that I know, strangely, it works in all the fields of human endeavour.”

“I can only strive for what is important”

“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty and there I make it work.”

“Every failure makes me to work twice as hard than me giving up.”

“Too many irons, not enough fire.”

“Wrote my way out of the hood…thought my way out of poverty! Don’t tell me that knowledge isn’t power. Education changes everything.”

“Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.”

“When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”

“Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.”

“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.”

“There’s no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that’s that. I am not talented. I am obsessed.”

“It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.”