You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

They are faithful, even if we are not.

Positive mindset, positive self-image and positive attitude are the best-habits to nurture.

If we knew when we woke up that it would be the last day of our lives, we would transform every little act of our daily humdrum into small farewells.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.

People will always make comparisons.

The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.

Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.