“Love shouldn’t be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can’t have that from the get-go, there’s a problem.”

I have my own studio down in Miami.

Animals keep you company when you’re really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what – it’s harder to feel bad or down.

My favorite thing about being famous… it’s not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It’s still pretty tough.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I’ve had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me… I learned my lesson.

There’s not a day that I don’t work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I’m always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now … I am.

Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I`m stronger.

My career is my girlfriend.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

I would forgive my mom, but she’s going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.

You don’t score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.

No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

I’d never be able to see the shore.