When I'm onstage I feel changed.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

I can say that I don't see myself with the foot on the gas pedal as hard as it's been down for 16 years.

The beauty is that it's all a part of this wonderful dream I had in college. It's beautiful to see what it's turned into. It's the journey that I'm most proud of.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud.