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

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

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.

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.

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 tell a love story true, a romance writer must bare hearts, souls and bodies.

Time has wings and it can fly . A second spent wastefully can never be regained, a minute spent wisely is memorable and an hour spent well becomes an history.

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

What do you know? She liked to be told she was scary. Kinky.

My country tears of thee.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.