When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

I stopped caring what people thought.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

Where all lines and rays convergeWhere no one can travel furtherOne finds the abode of the soulAnd here, all routes one can augur

Do not take the advantage of all the little luxuries a house of a stranger may offer you.

Love yourself to fill your heart with kindness.Then love others to fill the world with happiness.

You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.