"I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart."

"The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless."

"Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society."

"I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired."

"I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful."

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

"Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler."