"For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness."

"When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile."

"I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking."

"I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family."

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."

"Packing is my pet hate."

"The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings."

"I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration."