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.

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.

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.

Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes, ’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.

ability is of no value without discipline. Winning has no style or substance without humility.

With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

I used to have hair so long, my nickname was Pocahontas.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump