I think there's a fundamental distinction between character-driven movies that are just really lovely slice-of-life movies and character-driven movies that you remember 20 or 30 years later; the...

The soldiers at the DMZ are all very young, and I feel guilty about that.

I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it.

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

Traitors' was awesome. It was so intense.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

I want to tell stories that reflect how people are feeling.

A fight involves the emotion, the strategy of combat. There are many factors connected to a fight.

I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. They thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

When I sing my hits live, the feeling is electrifying.

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Music is life, that's why our hearts have beats.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Isaac stopped her at the bottom of the stairs with a crooked smile. I would wish you sweet dreams, but how can they be memorable if I won't be in them?

If I start from a place of love, more times than not I will find what is "right," but if I start from a position of "right" I will rarely find love.

... and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

It was wonderful to see the sparkle back in her eyes. He wanted to keep it there. For the first time in years he'd found himself actually caring about how someone else felt. He'd been spending so much...

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

You are never old enough to lose your mother.

The piper never knew we were watchers... ..Sounds echoed - sounds of a Scottish love song. They echoed through the silence, soft and melancholy, as he kept time with his foot, and the metal of the...

You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone…gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness.

Where we love is home

Conservative should tend to resist the argument that our particular crisis is a more-than-normal one, that our particular moment is a more-than-Madisonian one. Conservatism is a healthy political...

I don't want to know that you don't want me. I don't want to know what you do without me. I don't want to know what I'll be without you. I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know.

I felt it. I heard the snap of my heart tearing in half. It wasn't a messy, dirty rip like I'd expected, but a smooth, clean line that knew just where to break to hurt me the most.