Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.