[In Europe] they're really interested in you drinking their alcohol and eating their food and showing you around.

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.

You start to do shows and people come up to me and say, "I wish more people were here, how come more people aren't here?" and that just starts to get a little.

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.

Helping each other out, that's America.

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.

When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

Feeling good is what you should be doing every day of your life.