That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

Well, besides being entertained, I’d like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look down at the audience, and this is personal experiences now I’m going to tell you. It’s like you look down at the audience and see people smiling, crying, hugging each other. I want them on their way home to feel empowered like they can do anything.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

Perhaps one of the most important lessons that I continue to have reinforced is to always have faith and believe in yourself. To never lose sight of who you are and to know yourself.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.