I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.

As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart.

I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've written some pretty good ones in my time.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.