I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.

Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.