Love and heartbreak is something that's always been a part of me.

I feel that when you have a passion and you are real, you last throughout the ages and you're able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.

I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.

I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

I'm one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that's another side of me. As long as it doesn't veer away from who I am, I'm down with it.

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

Country life has its advantages, ' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good. . . and there are gooseberries.

I learned that courage and fear always come as a pair. If you've gone one inside you, you've surely got the other.

Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

Don't die like I did.

Those who aim low usually hit their targets.

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.