Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

It's a beautiful day, and I can't stop myself from smiling!

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

I just don't want people to think I'm too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I'm going to get caught doing somebody horrible.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.

It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record [Call Me Irresponsible] is about.

I brought in producer Johan Carlsson [Ariana Grande, One Direction, Flo Rida] and asked, "Can you make this better?" And he did.

As I've gotten older and the world has gotten far more complicated .

It was in that small lack of movement that Poet could see true horror. A mirror held up to the human race and how it can be manipulated. Ruined.

Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.

I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

Man as a pure animal does not exist

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.