I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.

I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.

The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I’m sick of the whole ‘my gun will solve all’ mentality. (Wulf)

It's true that history seems denser than it really is.

I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.