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

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.

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.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do

If you are not interested in yourself, then nobody is. But there is no reason to be self-obsessed.

Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location.

Our ultimate goal is to be fully present for life. It takes practice

The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.