I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar

Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Magic is a naughty beast.

Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family in another city.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.

Music should never be a job. It should be your hopes, your dreams and everything you believe in.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.