“You could have all the riches in the world, but it doesn’t mean much without family.”

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

Even if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.

If you treat me fairly, I’ll give you all my goods.

My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.

When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

Love me like you’ll never see me again.

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

Being a father means being a worthy Example.

Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy.

I love dogs. I grew up with dogs in my family from the time that I was a little boy; we always had German Shepherds and Labradors. I get on very well with dogs, they trust me.

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.

One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.

The kindest words my father said to me- women like you drown oceans.

Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, somebody of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.