When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you but by the light that shines within.

Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked."It only works on wild animals.""So it would only affect Percy, " Annabeth reasoned."Hey!" I protested.

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.

In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.