People have made me so big now, which I never thought I can be as a female singer.

Going out with friends for a nice dinner and then attending the midnight mass are some of the memories I cherish.

I will give full credit to the 'Indian Idol' platform for grooming me as a singer and shaping my career.

Singing from the heart is my only goal.

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.