"I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it."

"My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like."

"People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look."

"Crying is really bad for your vocal cords."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The true measure of a man is character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"It is a timeless truth that the moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain — an essential principle for the reflective life."