A. J. McLean Quotes

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

Power is a test - the test - of character.

Clients don't want us to do what they ask, they want us to go further

The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.

When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!

He turned the music up loud. So what if it would deafen him? It made him happy. Like it had so many times before.

. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.

Going to work every day was like my hair was on fire and all I had to put it out was a hammer.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

You came into my life and you healed me. You made me feel alive again.

Our raw imperfections make us real and make us human but they don't make us.

You are exactly who you need to be in this moment. Don't begrudge that or justify it.

She blows a heavy breath, her eyes so full of tears that if she blinked, they'd fall.And then she does.She blinks. They fall. I break.- Cam

Edwin is prepared to believe that a glass exists. And further, that this glass holds liquid.

Why are you smiling like that?""I'm just happy.""Why?""Because you're here. You're real. And you're mine.

She was smiling. And it's all I ever wanted.

Rejection is the run in the pantyhose of life.

When it comes to writing, clarity trumps all rules.

Clarity trumps all rules.

Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together?

So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever

Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.