No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

I think in the same way you find a song that you feel represents the way you feel on the inside, that's for me what fashion is all about. It's sort of an external expression of an internal feeling.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

We are all made complete by our pain.

People in this world are cruel, selfish and ignorant. The only way to survive is to be the good side of yourself.

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

My children don't look Hispanic.

The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

You have to treat people the way you want to be treated, because ultimately, you're not gonna get anywhere if you're just mean to people.

The first hundred years are the hardest.