I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.

There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat. And for me, and I would not be surprised if a lot of women feel this same way, it's this thing of not being 100 percent comfortable with myself.

Simplicity makes me happy.