Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.

Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

People have the "ships" that they love, and I think they love the show's ["Pretty Little Liars"] original relationship the most.

It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.

There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.