I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

If you ever forget how much you really mean to me, Every day I will remind you

Be in control. Know who you are. And don't try to be different just to be different.

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line

You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

When I see your face, there's not a thing that I would change 'cause you're are amazing just the way you are.

You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

I still prefer horses to human beings.