They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.

I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

People have to respect intellectual property.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

Again and again I will suffer

Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.

There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.

Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.

We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste.