I never expected any sort of success with ‘Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren’t true.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he’s a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.

We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.

I’ve always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.