I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

[W]hen you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it. Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A's and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn't have the instincts, he'll never be a successful entrepreneur.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

Don't dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God's all-sufficiency.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.