If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.

Broken hearts made faults and fools of us all.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.