We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career, and you have to be strong inside because so many people come around and try to say bad things about you.

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.

I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.

What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.

My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.

All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.

I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

If you're with someone, it's because you're moving in the same direction, and you both are looking for the same thing. Both of you have to share the same concept of what a relationship means.

You can't just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.

I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!

I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.

I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.

In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.

Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

One eye sees, the other feels.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

The future is today.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.