I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.