You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

I never smile unless I mean it.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

Don’t laugh at me. Is it proper etiquette for an angel to laugh at someone in a state of Penzance?Penzance? Are you a pirate?

It was in that small lack of movement that Poet could see true horror. A mirror held up to the human race and how it can be manipulated. Ruined.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'

Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

Consumers want a better world, not just better widgets.

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.