Don't be scared to embrace the way that it hurts just to grow. You'll look back and your heart will thank you for not standing still when what you needed the most was to move forward

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.

No boy is worth your teenage years!.

Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.

Remember to enjoy everything. The things that feel good, the things that hurt. It’s all gonna make you better. Stronger.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

Life is not always good, which is why music exists.

Suicide is no solution. Keep fighting.

To anyone that ever told you you're no good.. they're no better.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Muslim brothers be damned; they're our greatest enemies. You know yourself that I'm a Muslim, even a fanatical Muslim. But that does nothing to alter my opinion of the Arabs.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.