Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us - public, private, and secret.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.

Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.

It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.

If you regret anything in your life, then you haven't learned any lessons.