You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again.

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what

I spend my time on Crimewatch appealing for criminals on the run. Domestic violence is one of the few crimes I can think of where the victim is often forced to go on the run.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.

I make jewelry occasionally. I'm not a hobbyist. I'm a reader, I'm a lover of books, I like to watch movies, but mostly a lot of nothing. I'm quite content doing very little.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.