My English is not very good-looking.

Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

It is vital that we raise awareness of the risks faced by drug misusers.

Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.

Love is always the same but people change.

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.