I'm tired of playing little girls. I'm a woman now. I can't run around forever being the Little Miss Fix It who bursts into song. I want to get out of Hollywood and get a fresh approach.

I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.

There are two ways to learn anything. An interesting way and a boring way. I like the interesting way.

God made me a singer, and I just sang.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.