When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.

I feel that when you have a passion and you are real, you last throughout the ages and you're able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.

I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.

Love and heartbreak is something that's always been a part of me.

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.

I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

I'm one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that's another side of me. As long as it doesn't veer away from who I am, I'm down with it.

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

The thought that your time and your life will melt away should create a sense of urgency to do something of worth with it before it all melts away.

The world is moving at a slow pace. Each day I get up and I feel the world must have moved ahead far but, unfortunately, it remains at the same point each day.

I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it.

Ebooks had to happen.

It is not wise for Chinese to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.

We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.