I don't care if I ever hit radio, and I don't care if I ever get any bigger than this. I just wanna stand up for artistry because that's what really matters in music

I'm as awkward as it gets, dude, but I embrace the awkward! I embrace the awkward and make everyone else feel awkward

You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem.

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

Everything kills you, you're dying everyday. You're either dying everyday or you're living every day and I'm living everyday.

In this world of hate there has to be a light Be that light and spread some love Maybe this day the youth can make a difference, No more hate!

I'm friends with everybody. I love everybody. I trust everybody because they don't give me a reason not to.

I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.

Art is inside of you; express yourself.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

Don't teach necessarily what others teachers are teaching. Find what it is that you have to offer and teach that.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.