“I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.”

My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn’t work out, I would have something to fall back on.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn’t expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

This is a very fickle business. It’s really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

I’m a perfectionist. It’s a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

All we have to see is that I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.

It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We’re taught that you have to grab what you can before it’s gone. It’s almost as if there isn’t time for compassion.

My mother is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs – by the time I was about 17 – she started to believe in me, musically.

Teacher, there are things that I don’t want to learn.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

Only time will set you free, just like me

Even more exciting is learning that to create the future of your dreams, you need only change your thoughts and vibrations from this day forward.

Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.

I’m excited to be growing as an artist and doing unexpected things.

We all go through feelings of excitement, depression, happiness, stress, love, and the list goes on. 

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

I miss the feeling of being excited to talk to someone.