Follow your intuition not other people's words

If you want to succeed in life you have to blaze your own paths

Never fear the unknown that is where your future may lie

In the last decade our attention span has dropped from 13 seconds to 8. To put that in comparison a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. Don't be a goldfish.

Don’t spend your time or money on being boring.

You can follow others into mediocrity, or you can create something that will be remembered

He made his character his platform.

Doubters don't mean a damn thing. I doubt it'll rain tomorrow, but that doesn't mean I control the rain. What I think has no bearing on what is. The wise ask questions, Perry. The weak doubt.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.

I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a church (and) started a relationship with Jesus.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.