In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born

In my daughter's eyes, I am a hero, I am strong and wise, and I know no fear, but the truth is plain to see, she was sent to rescue me, I see who I want to be, in my daughter's eyes.

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.

Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark.

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.

I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.

I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

I'm where I need to be, so my heart is light. Whatever happens, I know - I mean, I feel - that this is absolutely where I should be and I've lived up to my own expectations.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

Right now, we are doing it blindly.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.