Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Devote time wisely to discover your true self

Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.

I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.

Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.

It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge song in between Sing and Thinking Out Loud.

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do

I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.