I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.

I believe in the Bible and I try to follow the Bible. I know I'm an imperfect person … I'm not making myself an angel because I'm not an angel and I'm not a devil either. I try to be the best I can and I try to do what I think is right.

It's easy to say I love you with your mouth. But I like when people say I love you with their heart.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.