I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember. Literally, since maybe the second grade. I don't think there was one turning point where I said, "This is it".

The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say those kind of songs that come just like that are the good ones.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

I just love to sing, so like my dad's advice when I was younger - anytime you get a chance to sing, just go out there and do it! I truly just love the actual singing.

It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.

A self-limiting belief is no stronger than the flimsy rope that tethers an elephant by its foot.

Gratitude is joyful act.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

When you love someone, you have to be with them, don't you? To be part of their life, to have them be part of yours." Glory in Death

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.