I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

Don't you worry child see heaven's got a plan for you

Anything I can do, you can do better.

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.