My best friend was Aboriginal.

I just said yes to opportunities that came my way.

I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

Mom worked with autistic children.

I’ve always been quiet, more of an observer.

Change, of course, is growth, and anything that is not growing is either paralysed or it's not alive, because that's life; we always change and we grow.

You can't give if your cup of inspiration isn't full.

I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.

How could we have found, who we really are, without education?

Walking with God's guidance makes every path of success walkable.

I'm Used To, Being Used, Not Abused.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.