I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - sometimes I feel that way for my voice.

The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

It takes me a lot of time, and it's almost frustrating for the guys sometimes because they're waiting for a new song. And I - it's just so important for me to get the perfect, exact, right song.

The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she’d snap and crack the world in two.

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.