I've never been fired in my life.

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.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

The impeccable roles of a good responsible mother should at all times be applauded.

To seek after beauty as an end is a wild goose chase a will-o'-the-wisp because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30 something.