I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

When I realize I made someone's day, it makes my day.

Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

The plans of God are only revealed in the presence of God.

The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless.

The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.

I'm happy to be working with all women.