I'm kind of the boss. I could fire myself if I ever got out of line, and I can hire myself too which is a good thing. It gives me a responsibility to the financial realities.

When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.

Become more committed to seeing what's right about you than you are to seeing what's wrong, and soon you'll start to feel a lot different about yourself.

The eye of your mind—your intelligence

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.

Everything's temporary...until it's not.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs.

Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.

All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.