Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

Do not have Jesus Christ on your lips, and the world in your heart.

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.