I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

I urge all young people to go for their dreams. If they do, many of the world’s problems will be solved.

I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.

I try to be kind and generous, and to give to people, and to do what I think God wants me to do.

Find your star and throw it up to heaven. You still have it, don't you?

No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.