“I didn’t have a job or anything, but I knew I wanted to be in magazines. I went out every day and hand delivered my resume, and a year later I got a job with Architectural Digest magazine. I apprenticed with the editor-in-chief. She was 76 when I first started working for her. She started that magaz…”— Mary Padian, sparefoot.com
“Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“I hear people saying, ‘Get ya money on, get ya money on.’ I hate that. I mean, that’s you’re motivation? If you do well, the money will come.”— Bernie Mac, huffingtonpost.com
“Walking to the studio there would be like tanks and army people walking on the street.”— Beastie Boys, youtube.com
“The day that "Eat It" went into rotation I became an overnight celebrity.”— Weird Al Yankovic, youtube.com
“I wanted to a parody of "Live and Let Die" and my parody, brilliant idea, was "Chicken Pot Pie".”— Weird Al Yankovic, youtube.com
“And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“The first time I went to a record store and actually bought a CD would have been the blue album by Weezer. When I was 13 or 12 or something like that. I had $20. Bought the CD.”— Mac DeMarco, youtube.com
“Nobody wanted me to put out White Iverson. They said wait. I said I don't have fucking time to wait. I don't have any money, what am I going to lose? I put it out the next day and it went bananas.”— Post Malone, youtube.com
“I told my parents, two weeks before I was leaving that I'm not going to school anymore and I'm going to LA.”— Post Malone, youtube.com