I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

I stopped caring what people thought.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

Dance with the waves of sea and sing with the sky, touch the sands with love and let your mind fly high.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

[Mullah Omar] gave himself this religious title. So it was something that all those people there who swore an oath of loyalty to him as a religious leader could not easily get rid of.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.