I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

It was true. She was his soul’s star. His heart ignited every time she came into the room, flared with every just-so gesture. Anything she touched became instantly talismanic.

Alone in the dark, the Creator lights a flame of fire, to guide my path.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.("The Wendigo")

I don't want to write about real things, I would rather write about an uncontrollable parasitic twin.

Just so you know a weapon, a body armour can never be a fashion accessory.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.