I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.
Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'. Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.
I remember when John Lasseter called me back in the late 1990s to personally invite me to come be the voice of Barbie in 'Toy Story 2.'
And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee.
Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.
It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
