Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.