As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path.

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

I got really lucky when I found somebody that I want to be friends with forever.

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole country.

Strong women, that's who I really respect.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

I feel bad sometimes because I secretly hope New Orleans gets nailed again.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.