I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.

The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.

I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.