I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

We live in Matrix run with rules from the people around us.

I have had so many bad auditions.

The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

Diversity hasn't a thing to do with why this country is great. Diversity is not a factor in any way when defining or explaining America's greatness.

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.

I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.