As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.

We're a road team. We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We have fans everywhere.

Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.

God has control over everything, and obviously, everything to everyone is god-given.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you.

A big hit is all part of the game. If you want to make a lot of big hits, you forget about the one you just made and move onto the next one.

In a corner you condense yourself and cry- in the same corner you caress and kiss. Life is this, something different each time.

It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)

In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.

I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

My fans will tell you all day that I can rap. That's all I need.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

The way I see it, I belong to the film as any other department.