Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

Don't take life too seriously! Learn to enjoy yourself and be grateful for all you have.

If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign.

If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.

I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.

Keep up with social media. Twitter and Facebook are both great ways to get your music out, especially internationally.

I don't know a lot about New Zealand except that it is beautiful! All of my friends in bands who have toured there have said great things about it so I hope I can go perform there soon!

...you do not have too many boogeymen for me. You have just the right number.

When mindfulness is present, the Buddha and the Holy Spirit are already there,

Believe in your dreams for that is what makes you magical.

Isn't it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as 'oppression'?

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.

Pain fades,” I said slowly. “But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?” The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu’s face blazing with fury.

Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.

What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.