Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.

You are so beautiful to me.

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then.

It was great fun to be able to work with so many different artists. And I'm paying a tribute to the Beatles. I've just recorded some of their songs.

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'.

My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

I've really actually grown with my girlfriends and the people that they've introduced me to and the way that I've been welcomed in by their families. I'm a very, very lucky man.

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

Today at least I live in a better place