I think I look good. I think I look real good.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.

Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

All that pain of craving somewhere deep inside which lies in wait for one glimpse.

Every believer is also a nonbeliever because he does not believe in the things nonbelievers believe in

I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

I used to be really snobby about music. I'm not as snobby as I used to be, though. I have this great bit about not getting mad about music anymore. It just happens when you get older.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.