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

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 am a perfectionist.

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

And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.

Words without warmth are dead words.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.