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.

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

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.

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'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.

We will find true peace only when we learn to see that there is no difference among ourselves, realize that we are different manifestations of one, and we love each other as brother and sister.

When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future.

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you're pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job. And life is too short for that.