The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember. Literally, since maybe the second grade. I don't think there was one turning point where I said, "This is it".

The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind of songs that come just like that are the good ones.

I just love to sing, so like my dad's advice when I was younger - anytime you get a chance to sing, just go out there and do it! I truly just love the actual singing.

It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

Why do you want to fall in love when love is inside you?

You must first forgive yourself in order to forgive others.

It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.

White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.