Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.

I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.

There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself.

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

Nothing is impossible. It can be downright difficult, but not impossible.

I needed to stop eating sweeties and cakes. It's the bane of my life. I had to lose the weight for my health.

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

I'm so proud of my son for being so funny!

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

I would love to adopt a child too but my cat might get jealous. I don't want to see a cat and a baby fighting. It's something I might do later.

People who bullied me have matured now. Some are good friends.

The first duty of any Christian is to know God and the wisdom of His Word to the utmost

our life does not belong to us any more, it is now the life of Jesus Christ that lives in us.

Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

You have to try your best to have peace of mind, and whatever happens you know you did your best

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

Only the mad girls chase me, I think.