Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Success sits on a mountain of mistakes

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.

The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.

I appreciate America for all the opportunities it's afforded me.

The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out.

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.