The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

I've always been under scrutiny. But I used to just not really pay attention to what people said.

I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.