Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I’ve got my cardio people – so it’s anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song ‚Tightrope,‘ that’s a good cardio song. And then I’ve got Sting. I’ve got Mary J. Blige. I’ve got The Beatles. I’ve got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.

It is natural to want to have a future.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

We live in a bewildering world.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

Children make your life important.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

If I can be a leader, I will.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Death is a fearful thing.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.