Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

I looked a little pasty. But hey, at least I didn't wet myself!

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

Songwriters tell the truth.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.

If you allow someone to control you, you surrender part of your power to them.

Husband and wife both are works together as two wheels in a vehicle. Here is equality between both.

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.

If we could solve the problem of who we are and where we are going, that it would have a huge impact on the culture and waterfall in on some of the more practical and social issues.

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.