I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'

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.

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another.

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

Focus on what's next, not what came before.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.

If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.

Maybe the most interesting find in my research is that it is clear that Ronald Reagan, among all modern presidents, plainly rediscovered the founders.

Would the cook were o' my mind!