I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.

I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

People have to respect intellectual property.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

Take it easy, but take it.

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!

A small loan makes a debt; a great one an enemy.

You can't beat a nice glass of Chardonnay after a really long, hard day.

The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.