The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

Hearing God’s voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

The poor will provide you what they don't have and what you need while the rich will give you what they have and what you want.

You can’t afford not to manage your brand.

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.