Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

Music is really driving my whole life.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

Let the path be open to talent.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Football is unconditional love.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I wanted to write.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.