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I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.
As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
I hardly ever cry because that's just not the type of person I am. But I only break down in front of Yunho at times.
I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.
I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.
I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.
You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it.
Sometimes we know not where or how far we are going until we stop and think about just how far we have come and why.
Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.
What I love most about Zumba is that they make exercising fun and make it accessible to everyone all over the world.
Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.
My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!
Besides the vocal warm ups, me and my band have a secret hand shake that we do just to get us all pumped. It's nice.
It's such a weird process, songwriting, because you just have to feel it. There's no right or wrong melody or lyric.
It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.
I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.
Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality.
I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.
I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.
The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.
Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.
When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.
The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.
The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.
I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.
I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!
Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.
I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.
I'll go through the budgets for tours and recordings, royalty statements... You have to wise up about it a bit more.
Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.
I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.
The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.
I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.
There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch.
I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws.
We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.
Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.
Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.
Falling in love is an absolutely beautiful thing to go through, and why people shouldn't talk about it is beyond me.
I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.