I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

I don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.

Words are useless. Use your eyes to say a million things.

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"

I came up with a good idea... see-through skin.

But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.