It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

Look in the mirror and see who you are. Beautiful, you are.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.

There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.

The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.

If women have confidence in themselves, they will have confidence in other women.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.