She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Determination + Persistence = Success

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.