Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

I stopped caring what people thought.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

Pray frequently as you read [the Bible] and you will discover a fellowship with God.

Love is like a bird, they flies everywhere, its free, but its hard to trust someone where they like to stay.

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.