You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis

There are different paths to your destination. Choose your own path.

Don’t make me climb across this desk and slap you, because I will.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.

The thing I'm most proud of here at Iowa is putting the ANF on our headgear.

The more I push myself to take a risk, the less afraid I am to take a risk the next time. Each time I do, I expand my circle of comfort and my life becomes BIGGER.