She was born in Baton Rouge, her favorite song was In My Life.

We get to choose who we love, and that includes God, and he loves us back.

When I was touring and spending so much time on the bus, I realized that I actually knew very little about the industry that I'm in so I set out to educate myself on the music business.

It shouldn't matter what your sexual orientation is, you just need to be great at what you do. If you're an artist, be a great artist.

Just feeling free to walk out on stage and be myself is pretty damn significant.

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth.

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I can just live a life where I'm surrounded by people that I love.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.