Oh my god, it's good to be alive!

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Christians need to realize that they are free children of the almighty God

I can't imagine a life without a story.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

[Payne] was a really great experience, and both John [ Larroquette] and JoBeth [Williams] over the years, it's been great reconnecting with them and working with them on other projects as well.

Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

It's okay to rest. Jesus fights when you cannot.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

If you create a vision for yourself, and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.