I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.

The human heart is bigger than the world.

But when a cut is deep, it’s still just flesh beneath.

I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

First of all, Jesus clearly tells us not to swear oaths.

Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.