A general message to "everyone" on the planet would go something along the lines of, "Make Love, Not War."

One truth I know for sure is that I am so blessed in my life.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.

Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

Accepting new challenges makes me come alive.

If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.

I love my fans unconditionally. They have been supportive of me through everything, and I would not be here, giving this interview to you, without them.

Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.

You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to anticipate some, to be the light and dream.

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.

Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?