I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

There have been great things that happened to me.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.