I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.

I got to play a real D-bag lawyer, and comb my hair really awfully and kiss Emma Stone, so it was a really wonderful day on set.

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

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.

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

When I feel confused or depressed I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat This too shall pass.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.

An old road always looks richer and more beautiful than a new road because old roads have memories!

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.