I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

I never smile unless I mean it.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those frequencies we transmit information and receive information.

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259