I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.

My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.