All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

My prayer is that before they die, all people know that they are loved

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

It takes years to readjust dynamics and relationships, and to overnight create the new dynamic, I was surprised by how challenging that was for me personally.

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

Suddenly it was cool to have your hair lank . . . It was a whole different way of looking at things, and it shook up the whole industry.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.