In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

Text, images, and video are the paint swatches of 21st-century artists — with a single catch: this form of art has to communicate, engage, and sell.

Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

I sing my song for a living, and I don't really worry about who listens or what they think. But it seems to make a living.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.