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.

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

Salvation by the cross. [Lat., In cruce salus.]