One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

Always sing below your potential.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.

The mind and the chit are discharging and the world has believed them to be ‘charge’. That is why they attempt to still the mind and the chit, but that is not possible.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

Films, media, educational system and arts portray Muslims in a racist and negative way. The more interesting question is who is behind these images.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.