My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar

Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

I've written books on advertising-cheque books.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.

What is more gentle than a wind is summer?

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.