As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

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.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'.