It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

No matter what you're going through as long as you have some specific emotion whether it's positive or negative it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility if we all sat back and did nothing of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

On the one hand the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

We live in a stage of politics where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

You know bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet and you know there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind and it can also threaten your livelihood.