Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.

The edge came from the slights I've had throughout my life, the slights I have dealt with through the entirety of my life. It wasn't one day when somebody said something and that made me upset and now I'm over it. I'm not going to stop playing with an edge because that's what got me here. That's just how I play the game. I can't play any other way.

Don't you open your mouth about the best!

Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.

Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.

A lot of people have been asking whether I would ever go into politics. I'm not sure I would.