I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.

Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions.

The difference between the power of love and the power of atomic bomb is that atomic bomb has a limit.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

Spiritual awakening is not really spiritual at all.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

I'm even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

You have to feel good about yourself.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

I think that's the important thing - being aware of that inspiration and being able to interpret it into something that's meaningful for you.