Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.

I try to have a real close connection with my fans. That's extremely important. They are the ones that have been there from the beginning and proved everyone else wrong.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.

The room was filled with a strange vibe of awkwardness that I was sure could only be dissolved by kissing him again or running away.

Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?

Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind would no longer hunger for love.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

God uses people who fail - Cause there aren't any other kind around.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

There's nothing about the way my life unfolded that should be seen as at all prescriptive for what anybody else wants to do.