We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

Decide the type of person you want to be, and when others aren’t looking, unique up on them.

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.

Everyone has his besetting sin.

I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.