My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank...

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because...

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is...

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And...

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Every life is precious.