Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I’m not going to say I’m cool, because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‚What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!‘

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.