I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.

I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.

I was painter staring at a canvas waiting for the forgotten visions of my new abstract piece to come to me. But I am the abstract piece and my mind cannot comprehend the work my heart has created.

We trust sir that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.

If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.

What is Freedom? ye can tell That which slavery is, too well For its very name has grown To an echo of your own.

If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.