I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

I absolutely love talking to all of my fans.

Im not the type of artist thats like, Lets go out and party and dance your life away! I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my songs and they have messages.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Speech is the voice of the heart.

I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.

I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.