I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

Ours was a history of well intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

Dignity is an anachronism.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

I live for a woman who scratches, just make sure to keep it on the back, baby, I dont like scars." ~Otto Carvalletti

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are right now.