It GRADUALLY dawned upon me that there was no one more DIFFICULT to PLEASE than my MOTHER.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to PLEASE all the WORLD.

I THINK people who don't have CONFLICT in their lives are just trying to PLEASE people and not REALLY LIVING life to the fullest.

What I have in COMMON with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take CARE of everyone and I also feel this TERRIBLE guilt if I am UNABLE to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

People come up to me in airports, they walk into the OFFICE, and they say, 'I'm going to CRY; I'm going to PASS out.' And I say, 'Please don't pass out; I'm not a doctor.'

My mother told me once that she had her TALK with God WHENEVER she started a NEW sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing BAD would happen.

Puny MAN can do NOTHING at all to HELP or please GOD Almighty, and LUCK is not the hand of God.

I HOPE that what you TAKE AWAY from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be FUN, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please ALSO take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

If LOVE is the ANSWER, COULD you PLEASE rephrase the QUESTION?

I know a few expressions. I know what Hilary Clinton basically says in RUSSIAN when you TRANSLATE her into Russian over and over and over is, 'izvinite pozhaluista.' That's, 'excuse me please, excuse me please.' Let's reset things. That's not the way you DEAL with folks. You show strength if you MADE a MISTAKE.

It is the QUALITY of our WORK which will PLEASE GOD and not the QUANTITY.

I have been unusually BLESSED in that I've been allowed to pursue two STRANDS of a career that both delight me and SEEM to please the PUBLIC.