I can't hit a ball more than 200 yards. I have no butt. You need a butt if you're going to hit a golf ball.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.

It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

I like to feel prejudice towards people who are prejudice

The pollen count, now that's a difficult job. Especially if you've got hay fever.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.