The Lord tells us where we are going and tells us when we are coming.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.