[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

I just remember him [Baz Luhrmann] making me laugh, and his accent.

I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."

The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.

I actually got to stay and watch the filming of different parts of the movie [Romeo+Juliet]. I got to meet some of the co-stars, like John Leguizamo.

I was 12, about to turn 13. [Laura Ziffren] pretty much knew she wanted to use me, so I just had to go and do the proper protocol and audition.

I've always been a fan and supporter of Prince. That's one of my inspirations.

I kind of think that he [Prince] was pleased because he allowed [When Doves Cry] to be done.

What if it's the thereand not the herethat I long for?The wanderand not the wait, the magicin the lost feetstumbling downthe faraway streetand the way the moonnever hangsquite the same.

In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.

If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

Dark circles are my charisma though.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.