There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance? Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? And would you save my soul tonight?

The power of music in Spanish is so strong that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

Never dance in a puddle when there's a hole in your shoe (it's always best to take your shoes off first).

If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.