I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.