Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that we hope to find.

With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

I didn't want to go to hell, but even the idea of reclaining my halo scared me because it would mean leaving Aly.

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes...eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.

You need good thinkers around you. Without them, you will go broke.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.