Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

There is a difference between a calling and an assignment

I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.

When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.

To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.