When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Press onward to fulfill your dream.

Proven professionals know that by focusing on quality, you can’t lose with the classics and your clothes will last longer. It’s not about having expensive clothing, it is about having style.

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.

Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view of the world.

We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.

Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.