Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time.

Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time.

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

I didn't really like modeling; it was fun but I always wanted acting.

Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'

We all must suffer from one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day.

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?"

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.