When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry.

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

...And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Darkness, that is, ignorance, limits our visibility.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

There is really no room in any healthy diet for trans fat, artificial sweeteners, and artificial colors in food.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.