I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.

Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the perception is. I just want to tell the story so the story as a whole works as opposed to just making sure that I work.

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.

I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.