When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I listen to gospel music.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

I thought eventually I'd have a family and I really didn't want to be a loser like that guy in his 40s still shopping his band's shitty demo tapes around.

Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.