It wasn’t really acceptable to be single for more than a week, two tops, if you were cool in junior high.

There really is nothing like firsthand knowledge if it’s mine.

You can be whoever you want to be. Sometimes all it takes is a little inspiration and effort.

You can’t spell American without “I can.

Polarization breeds respect..

Polarization breeds respect

I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.

Sometimes it’s nice to remember the little things.

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.

Since humans are social animals, you’re basically only as good as your reputation.

I was nine when I figured out it’s better to be respected than liked.

God has greater things in stock for us, but unless our great things are given away, we can't receive our greater things. Give big and you'll receive bigger!

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be able to pull something out of the bag.

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.