All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we should put this one in the album. So without him saying I want to record you and release an album, he kept - he started saying, let's put this one in the album. So the album, this big question, you know, began to take form, take shape. And Rick [Rubin] and I would weed out the songs.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.