Always sing below your potential.

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!

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

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.

Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.

Our greatest need is God’s grace.

If what you want does not exist, why not create it?

I raise my face to his, ready for the crush of his lips against mine, wanting to share more than these nervous breaths.

We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

Sometimes, it's easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It's like there's less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn't know you.

I'm also 31 years old. It's not like I'm some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.

Savings is no longer about the markets, they're about playing the product game.

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.