I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

I'd just love magic. I'd love to be able to just click and transport. I'd be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.

I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone

Life is a journey I don't have a map for.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

That kind of forgiveness is of God. And if they have it, they have it, and if they don't, well, maybe they'll find it someday.

The person who can not bear with a sick man or a baby is not fit to be a woman.

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

When you seek to dominate another you dominate no one but disempower yourself.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.