Josh Groban

I think that things like Twitter and the blogosphere are so instantaneously critical that I think it's actually created a bit of a culture of artistic fear to branch out too much because you don't want to be slammed.

All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.

You live in a bubble, generally, when you're touring and recording - you're in confined - in alone space, wherever you are, in the dressing room or in the studio - so sometimes it's hard to grasp that bigger picture of things that are going on.

I don't have a circus around me, and that's a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

I wasn't the best student, and for some reason, I always got music. While other people were having trouble figuring out notes on a page, I could listen to it once and play it back.

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.

I've been offered private planes, and I'm like, 'No!'

I'm the world's worst dancer. I have dancephobia.