In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.

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 suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

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.

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

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.