If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign.

Don't take life too seriously! Learn to enjoy yourself and be grateful for all you have.

Write your own music and write frequently. Go to as many live shows as you can as well (of bands you enjoy of course). You can learn a lot watching other performers.

If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me.

I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.

Keep up with social media. Twitter and Facebook are both great ways to get your music out, especially internationally.

I don't know a lot about New Zealand except that it is beautiful! All of my friends in bands who have toured there have said great things about it so I hope I can go perform there soon!

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.

Music was my coping mechanism. I could place myself outside my body. It humbles you.

I can't be the only person that's like, "Why am I in love with this guy just because he makes me feel bad?" I can't be the only person in the world who's had that feeling.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.