I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Darwin says people like you need to die.” (Carrow)

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.

Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't