I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

I never smile unless I mean it.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

There is a whole world out there, waiting for you. A world filled with opportunities wherever and whenever you want to grasp them. And whether you do or you don’t…. well that is totally up to you.

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you – and it’s not unique to the West either.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will be able to understand also.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

Love without attachment is light.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.