It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I’m tender on the inside.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people’s poet so I write for the people.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

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.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

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

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.