As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory

He couldn’t count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.

I have been saying and writing for so many years that one sentence can encapsulate the totality of life, of existence, of being: Infinite love is the only truth-everything else is Illusion.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

Precious and priceless, so lovable, too; The world's sweetest miracle, baby, is you.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.

What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.

We went to see 'Twilight' all together actually and we can't believe how bad it was.

The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.