I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that we hope to find.

With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

I didn't want to go to hell, but even the idea of reclaining my halo scared me because it would mean leaving Aly.

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes...eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI

‎Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. 'The grave's a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.

Death lays his icy hand on kings.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

The only person I can amaze is me.

Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!