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.

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 don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.

You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.

Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.