New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.