I want to continue to climb up the mountain of life and try to get everything that God has for me.

It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house. You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.

When you're someone who likes control, this world can often resemble staring into a broken mirror. You see the sharp, ragged edges but lose sight of yourself.

Part of me doesn't even know if we're together. I mean, we are-she likes me, and I want to run off to Mexico with her. So yeah, that's together, right? I guess I don't need a ring or anything.

In their wild state, before the appearance of the white man among them, the principal complaints they were subject to were those produced by long involuntary fasting, violent exercise in pursuit of game, and over-eating. Instinct more than reason had taught them a remedy for these ills. It was the steam bath.

God knows better than we do what we need.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.