I'm proud by not being frustrated, jealous or too confused by remaining creative. It's very easy to give up, and to keep going and sticking to your own ethos is very difficult.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

A drop of hope can create an ocean, but a bucket of faith can create an entire world.

My proudest accomplishment is my daughter Ella. Because she is a great person, great personality. She not really my accomplishment, she is her own, but I had something to do with it.

I'd like to be remembered for music that moves people, that takes them some place else, that means something to them, reminds them of a good time or place, some memory, some positive moment.

Do it yourself. Keep going. Many people have said these things to me many times and both are good pieces of advice. I like getting on with things.

I can't function without coffee and I cannot refuse chocolate. Drink I gave up years ago and don't miss it in the slightest. But I think I'd collapse without coffee.

Dance as if you got lost in the mystery and beauty of life.

Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.

Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.

I build my cars to go, not to stop.

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.