"My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere."

"I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'"

"I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future."

"Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you."

"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."

"I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing."

"Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day."

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."