The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.

I embrace everybody for who and what they are.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

I will never retire unless I have to.

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.