“If you have a gift for something, it's wrong not to work at it!”

“...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...”

“...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.”

“You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song.”

“Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.”

“It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.”