I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.

I'll be here where the heart is

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you.

The European public has always been great to me.

Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

May all your days be filled with twinkles so bright that even in the darkest depths you shine brightly

It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.

It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.