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.

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

I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.

Only the good die young.

The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole!

Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it!

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?