When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.

I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.

When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.

I am very excited about the future.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

I just like to think rather than talk. But I enjoy everyone's company.

I try to reach out to my idols.

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

I loved working with Cybill Shepherd. We had a good time together; we enjoyed being girlfriends. It was a real comfortable fit for us. I loved putting on a suit and tie.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - It is: Try to please everybody.

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

There have been reports of many child marriages taking place in the Malabar region in Kerala, especially among the Muslim community. However, under Muslim Personal Law, a girl can be married once she attains puberty, and hence we cannot say that such marriages are not valid.

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your talent, there is only one way to obtain it-work.

Children With special needs need your love and support not sympathy.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

There's a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

We only have two kinds of weather in California magnificent and unusual.

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.