I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Jennifer Hudson

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mahatma Gandhi

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

Greg Walden

O, hereWill I set up my everlasting rest,And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O youThe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissA dateless bargain to engrossing death!

William Shakespeare

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

John Ruskin

Love, too, has to be learned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

Orson Scott Card

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. He told me to wear a brown necktie.

Rodney Dangerfield

Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.

Bhagavad Gita