"My fans and I have that special connection because whenever we talk on Twitter and Facebook we really have that one on one connection and I feel that's important."

“And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.”

“I love these appeals to the "complexity of doing business in Alaska." If you want to live in remote villages or places with hostile weather and environment, that's certainly your right. But why is it you please continue to expect that the rest of us are responsible for making that economically feasible. You already get a big boost from oil and other natural resources. If that's not enough to pay for the infrastructure you say you need, maybe you should consider moving down here. No passport or work visa is required.”

“Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.”

Source : "A sound vision" by Maddy Costa, Dave Simpson, Adam Sweeting, John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2002.

“I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?”

“My dad was always my manager as far as I was concerned, even when I had another manager. At times he let me go with someone else who he thought could take me to another level when he couldn't, and he was right. But they were in it for another reason. He was in it because he wanted to see me succeed no matter what, and he made decisions based on being a dad as opposed to a manager.”

Source : Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. September 2009.

“Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.”

Source : Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

“Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.”

“The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.”