Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

I know somebody in every culture.