Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

I'm only human, and I bleed when I fall down.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul

Do what scares you, your dreams are there waiting for you.

Don't count the miles, count the I love you's!

And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more.

Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living.

I believe if I knew where I was going, I'd lose my way.

I have died everyday, waiting for you.

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.