I am a perfectionist.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

There was a family joke that Lucy's first words were, "Nicholas is bugging me!

The fullness of God’s grace fills us with power for every good work.

What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.

I'm the kind of person who always wants more.

My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, "pick up, I know you're there."

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.