Quotes

For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.

I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.

After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.

When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great.

When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

The core of my life is Islam, my religion. Without that, I have no strength, no belief in God or in myself.

I fall back on my faith; whatever happens, whatever goes wrong in your life, Muslims thank God because it could have gone worse.

In my life, my religion comes first, and obviously, my family comes second.