Being a role model is about being true to myself.

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

I don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

When you learn to listen to your gutt, your find all the answers.

Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.