I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

Look in the mirror and see who you are. Beautiful, you are.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

Explosions and fighting robots and shit. What’s that got to do with the heart?

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.

For all true love is grounded on esteem.

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.