I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.

The advice that I wish I would have given myself is to not care about what other people are thinking.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

I treat Hollywood as my high school.

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.

The real two-party system in America is the Meanies and the Weenies. The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

Being weak is a choice, so is being strong.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.