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I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do all my life. But I wasn't ready for all the added dramas that came along. There were times I fell out of love with music and thought about walking away. I thought I was happier when I was that girl at home in my bedroom singing into my hairbrush.

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing. My parents were so uninterested in me making music.

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

For the amount of talent I had - and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke - I enjoyed a tremendous career.

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.