I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

Affirmations don't make something happen; they make something welcome.

I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.