If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.

First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

I'm going for something very raw and organic.

Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

To fear God is to seek his favour.

A dream comes from within you. It is what you were created to do, so it has always been there.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

There are three conversions necessary (for the Christian life): the conversion of the heart, the mind, and the purse.

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

It comes down to this: If not you, then who?