I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.

My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.

I've been really lucky to have a lot of cool people and to be around a lot of cool celebrities that I've got to learn from.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.

Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.

I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.

My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.

I'm the kind of person who, even after a shoot that I've loved, is always moving on. There is no gap.

Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.

It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.