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 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.

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.

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role.

There is joy in every circumstance.

I tear at the air with glass nailsthat have learned to scalemountains of mirrors.

In his arms, I slowly unfolded like a love note read in secret.

Taking his hand I said "Fank woo.""Hm " he laughed with his mouth closed.

Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.