Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.