It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality

Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.

To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO

Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge.

Only the soul knows its sorrow.

Every damn breath hurt like hell, but I kept Breathing too. I told myself it would be a privilege to breathe through pain like that for the rest of my life - just knowing each breath was a gift.

We are so confused till a state that we do not know where we are standing ...

The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.