I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmill

We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

If I open my mouthMy word would be of love and hopeTenderness completing me from inside out

What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one day without warning flood out.

What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

I can't say I'm willing, Lord, but I'm willing to be made willing.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.

I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.