It helps to have someone in the same boat as you... There's a lot of pressure, so it helps to have someone who's also young and famous and has a lot of pressure to succeed.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

I'm not worried. My time will come.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta be creative, you gotta let your talent take over.

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls.

I'm very young. This gives me a perfect opportunity to play for a good team and be close to home, to grow as a player. (on signing for D.C. United)

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

I love your roots, not the flower everybody sees!

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

The best idea is the simplest.

You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.