Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis.

I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.

My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.

There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my mother wasn't too thrilled. She wanted me to go to university and get a degree or do something, and my father, he liked opera so he wasn't too thrilled either, because he wanted me to be an opera singer and I didn't have - as he said, I don't really have the strength to do that.

My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.

Let me hear your body talk.