CL Quotes

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

It was just the greatest feeling to see a kid with your shoes on.

I don't like the word power, because I don't really care about power. No, that's not what it is. I like that I make people feel good. I like that I take them out of their mundane, boring slumber. And I wake them up, and they have fun.

The world is filled with negativity. I want people to watch me and think, “I feel good, and I’m going to make somebody else feel good today.

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is whether you can inspire people.

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

I get such a rush out of seeing other people doing well.

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

Winning 'American Idol' gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives, and making a difference has given me the greatest satisfaction and joy.

To a great leader there is no worthy seed.

I think what I show is joy when I do stuff, so I think always having a love for what you do every single day is something that I hold extremely close to my heart because I know what it's like to not feel that.

If you love something, if you're passionate about it, that's where you're going to have the greatest impact on the people around you: by living in those passions and sharing that passion with other people and sharing your gifts and what God created you to be.

All the success I want is to inspire and impact on people that I come across that watch the game.

I feel like my calling is to show people joy: to make them feel like there's something to look forward to.

My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done.

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

My hope is to incite that feeling of inspiration in as many other people as possible. To receive and pass along that baton to anyone willing to carry it further. I guess the answer to the question would be I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.

There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.