I just try to show everything I represent and I represent God so I want to put that in my music.

What I believe is what I show, if I'm going to write a song about girls I don't want to do it in a way where I'm downgrading a girl.

Beyoncé is musically why I do what I do. She's an inspiration, she's incredible. I just love her.

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.

BE A STUDENT BY STAYING OPEN AND WILLING TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE AND ANYONE.