“There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.”

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

It’s pain that changes our lives.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.

I love money. I love everything about it.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

No art comes from the conscious mind.

The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I’ve realized that it’s time for me to show my audience that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she’s performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

I am a force of nature. I command an audience by just my mere presence.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

There are some shows that you wish you could walk and be in the audience for at the same time.

My father is a Baptist minister and my parents encouraged my music, always having me sing in front of an audience.