My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

I need my career. That's what validates me.

I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

I'm definitely not afraid of death. It's like I'm looking forward to it, really. I'm probably a little more afraid of living.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.