“I placed the highest priority on the sort of life that lets me focus on writing, not associating with all the people around me.”

“Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.”

“Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.”

“Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him,” Cook said. “That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.”

“Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.”

“Those people digging around in the refrigerator at 3am, those are the only people I can write for.And that, is me.”