In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
I think we have challenges, but we have so many opportunities to get it right. I like it when we have a little bit of a headwind. The kite actually lifts when you have a headwind and doesn't when there is lift from the back.
Problems and issues will always be there, and they'll never leave our side, so the object is to have a good time and make fun out of whatever we do.
I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
It hasn't always been easy. There's a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Hey, a hard background is not an excuse.
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Sometimes, you just have to take what the defense gives you.
Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.
A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'
You've got to embrace whatever is given and make the most of every opportunity to make it funny or to make it memorable.
