"I'm still a work in progress."

"If you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself."

"I often said that if I had any talent in the world, it would be as an opera diva. But my voice is not up to it."

"I think it's important to keep pushing forward, no matter what."

"I think the best way to get people to understand is to tell them stories. To show them how things affect real people."