You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

It's a beautiful day, and I can't stop myself from smiling!

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

I just don't want people to think I'm too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I'm going to get caught doing somebody horrible.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.

It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record [Call Me Irresponsible] is about.

I brought in producer Johan Carlsson [Ariana Grande, One Direction, Flo Rida] and asked, "Can you make this better?" And he did.

As I've gotten older and the world has gotten far more complicated .

As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].

If we focus on ourselves alone, we run our nation down.

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

How little has situation to do with happiness.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.

Most fan have been like, "You're a monster, you give me nightmares, don't talk to me."