Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

I am a perfectionist.

I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

Life is a pilgrimage. Each moment is to be lived in depth, because each moment contains God, hidden within it.

Businesses grow when they are well loved!

What will be will be, so your determination is just extra-ordinary participant .

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

When you give 100 percent to another person, two literally become one.