I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

I find day after day of sunshine boring.

I had no dream of being a movie star.

The best drink I've ever had was a mojito in St. Barts at Nikki Beach. That drink changed my life.

Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Every moment is a moment. Every moment makes a certain request of us. The question is how we answer it.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

Sometimes I like to watch videos of myself and see how confident I was.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.