"I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken."

"Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing."

"I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful."

"I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant."

"He who seeks peace must remember that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger."

"The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable."

"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle."