The best business decision I've made was to become a songwriter. I can't say that I have a worst, because I don't have any regrets.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

Love yourself for who you are. You are beautiful inside and out, and nobody can take that away from you.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously

Maybe, it wasn't stuck in my mind. Maybe, just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn't know how.

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

Autumn is no time to lie alone

Western conception of history has had great consequences over the last two hundred years. You see it in the invasion of Iraq. You see it in almost everything that is said and done.

The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don't want than what they do want.

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.