At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Sometimes you've just got to grab an apple - or grapes, or strawberries. Something that's healthy but maybe a little bit more adventurous, if you can see fruit as adventurous.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

Like your booty don't stink.

You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire.

Will there be people who will have the conscience to contribute to the country by changing themselves first? That is the need of the moment.

Sending everything they touch to the grave is what they do, but they don't see it as a grave mistake, yet.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.

In principle, I am against principles.

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.