Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

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

So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.

Boys laugh at what they put girls through - but they won't be laughing when - they're wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.