You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Sneakers are not my thing.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Learn to be comfortable in your own skin despite what you see and hear.

According to Joss [Whedon], “TV is a question, movies are an answer.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.

He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.

A problem shared is a problem doubled.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

And yeah, it got better. My stomach eventually went back to normal. I didn’t cry every day. But my heart. My heart will always be broken.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.