I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

I looked a little pasty. But hey, at least I didn't wet myself!

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

Songwriters tell the truth.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast

Oh, sweet! New man meat’s made it to town, y’all. Let’s gobble.

God’s greatness is beyond human understanding.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.