The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

I'd just love magic. I'd love to be able to just click and transport. I'd be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.

I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone

Life is a journey I don't have a map for.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

We came to the world with love and hopeWe are the creation of hope, faith and love.

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining.

She knew that nothing was ever as overwhelming or final as he seemed to think - that if he would wait, instead of shouting, there'd be less to shout over in the end.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

I'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. I'm not going to put on a pre-fab identity.