It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

I don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.

If it is God’s business, then it should be your business.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

It’s hard being pissed with a nice car and a good job. Fed up on filet medallions and swimming in chilled martinis. We know what we think and our life here is our reward for thinking it.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.

I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.