I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

I love barbecue, its my favorite thing to eat.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

I have learned from Twitter that you get that instant feedback about what people think about what you did.

It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Always be with the one who makes you smile

Hem, ' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

Life isn't always easy. I struggle day to day. But I choose to live life to the fullest and keep reminding myself that I am stronger than ANYTHING that stands in my way.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.

We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.