Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis, ' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

Bending according to circumstances in not weakness, it's wisdom.

If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit, ' after all.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.