I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

I've never feared the unexpected.

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.