It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

If you lose God's paradise in Heaven, then you never existed.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

I always enjoyed working out and pushing myself physically and mentally as much as I possibly could.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.