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

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.

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.

You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

History is written by the dreamers, not the doubters.

we dig our graves with our teeth.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that he would be raised from the dead.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.

You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.