Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

When you're working a three-hour gig, how do you know when to climax? You just watch the crowd and ride the wave. If they're not feeling a song, you move on.

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.

I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.