I'm not perfect, but I believe my faith in Jesus Christ will really take me far in the world!

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.

Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence instead is 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them.

If It's your passion and you want to do it for the rest of your life, why would comments stop you from doing that?

No matter what society is trying to drill in your head about how you should look, how you should act, and what you need to say, I think it's all crap. All of it. Be yourself and do you.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

If you can't find what's unique, people aren't going to listen.

Most of all I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

Don't let the idiots that like to bring you down, succeed in discouraging you. I let it get to me a while ago, and let me tell you, it feels SO good to come up under it!

Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.

It was 911 calling me. If you can believe it. Them calling me.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put them together - but that appears to be what's happening with you

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.

I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.