So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

Look in the mirror and see who you are. Beautiful, you are.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

Criticizing is easy, performing is difficult.

dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities.

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

Humor can give you the edge you are looking for.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like people, and it grows out like a nautilus shell.

To not think of dying, is to not think of living.

I was born out of classical music.

The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.