I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.

My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.

Everybody just needs a second chance.

I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

My die-hard fans who came out - I call them my die-hard fans because any time a fan pays to see you, they have to love what you're doing, respect the craft.

In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me.Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels.The killing moonWill come too soon.

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee’s smoke break.

He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.

I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there.

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.