My mom can still slap me silly and my dad still threatens to ground me.

I kept believing that, if I got my innings in, it would come. I just kept believing.

When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.

Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

It's fun to be the guy everybody looks to.

When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again.

I have a medical history folder that's a lot thicker than most.

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

The public good must come before private interests.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

You never know when you're making a memory.

I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.