Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

Be for something and against nothing.

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.