On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

Don't ever let someone tell you that you can't do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can't do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period.

Life is...the moments that take your breath away.

The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

My God, my higher power. It's mine and mine alone. I create my connection and I decide how my connection is going to be.

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.