The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

Chris Brown is SUCH a douchebag.

I have a no-apology policy.

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.