Hold your dreams, don't ever let it go

Never compromise and sell yourself short.

God is real. God is in me and in my life. I've been blessed, and he continues to bless me, and that is one thing that I will always know for sure.

Remember to be yourself.

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

Be with someone that makes you happy... STRIKE THAT...Be Someone that makes you happy.

You can choose when and when not to be stopped... Choose to be stopped after you die... when your work is done and done well.

Love finds you, not the other way around, and you can’t run from it.

It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.