My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen

It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small, and the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

You don't need faith to walk on the riverbank, you need faith to walk on water.

The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.

I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.