I am a very shy, introverted guy.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

The soul preserves beauty.

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.

Paris isn't a city, it's a world.

I love the broad margin to my life.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my music, not for physical appearances.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.