I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.
Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.
You’re an island no matter what you do. I think it’s very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.
I am not going to condemn anybody. That’s where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.
I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night – that’s when those creative juices begin flowing.
I don’t have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.
Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there’s something worth doing, it’s worth doing well.
I don’t want my album coming out with a ‘G’ rating. Nobody would buy it.
Well, unless you’ve suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it’s hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you’re actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It’s a catch-22. It’s called show business: The word ‘business’ is in it, and you’ve got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night.
You’re as good as anyone else is, if you’re good. You’re no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.
Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It’s not my position to judge. It’s God’s position to judge.
The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It’s a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.
Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I’ll say that until the day I die.
You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a ‘regular person.’
Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can’t make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can’t oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.
I love cranberry juice, but I’m not a coffee drinker – as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.
Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.
It’s a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that’s what it takes to be in show business.
Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn’t know what to do.