I started out doing covers.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

I had a fear of being alone.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.

At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

When we access ourselves wrongly, we cannot see our ability to achieve a goal

Life and love are never what you think they are.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it

It's much better for an artist to know everything than to be limited by ignorance.

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.