“Not just for me, but for everyone.”

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love.

The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors’ pushup bras?

I wouldn’t call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers.

The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it.

But where’s the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama.

Young people are often asked, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives.

CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement.

The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

Since the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word.

Our words can have power that we don’t think we have in everyday life.

We’re used to the characteristics of social media – participation, connection, instant gratification.

Maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

Where no girl is denied access to education, for instance.

I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.

This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

I would say that it’s important and probably crucial, but I wouldn’t say that everyone has to have it.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.