“The people inside the group need to have some conditions to follow. We have a philosophy of leadership, ideas, and concepts. They need to share that.”

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

You cannot live without doing something.

Any personal crisis – you have to use it to get stronger.

Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.

The only way you finish with poverty is with jobs.

It’s important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Think of an athlete. He may be very good in his own house, but not as good as his neighbors. You have to go beyond your home. You have to go worldwide.

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

The combination of non-profit organizations like the foundations and profit businesses can work together in some areas.

I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others.

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets, any sound investment will eventually pay off.

All times are good times for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

The idea of justice – even just dreaming of justice – is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust – and then tries to make it more accountable.

I have a few songs that I’m figuring out and writing. I’m still figuring out the whole concept and how it’s gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.

What is necessary is not EHV, but 3-HV: (Head-Heart-and Hands). The hands should carry out what the heart and approved of the ideas emanated from the head.

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

I’m probably the most proud of “Mrs. Potato Head,” because I had that idea in my head for so long, and I tried writing that song one time and I just couldn’t tell the story the way I wanted to, and I couldn’t figure it out.