My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.

People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.