I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

God is so good. Always follow your dreams, own your Purpose! Embrace God's Anointing

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.

I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be.

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

I will never be a loser. Never. Because I will never stop trying to be better.

Sing just to express your love for life and everything around you. No reason is needed to sing.

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.

When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.