I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

Put positive energy out into the world. If everybody did that, we would be in harmony.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

I never know what will happen. I have fallen on my face - not literally, thank goodness! - many times. But I always survive. And I don't let it stop me.

Nothing matters as long as you are kind and authentic. If you are, then you did your best, and that is all you can do.

Love is all that matters.

It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.

You is.Within Me!We are ONE.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will be.

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

There's only one list that's more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d'Or. It's the list of directors who didn't.

Some people are motivated by visualizing themselves reaching their dream. Some people are motivated by the nightmare of not reaching it. Do both.

Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.