You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

When you know your purpose in life, then by faith you know God will enable you to do it

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.