I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar

Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

Reason is also choice.

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Great obstacles make great leaders.

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.

It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

When I was young I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger, for several years.

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.