I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head.

I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

For me my passion is music. I just can't let it go!

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody.

...we find our vocations not by focusing on ourselves, but by focusing on others.

The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

And that, said John, is that.

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.