I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.
I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.
It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.
I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
John Merrick: My life is full because I know I am loved.
Grady Kilgore: You are absolutely, unconditionally, positively the most stubborn person I've ever known in my life!
Andrew Largeman: I don't want to waste another moment of my life without you in it.
Rhett Butler: I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
Seymour: Well, I have to admit that things are really starting to look up for me since my life turned to shit.
[first lines] Louis: So you want me to tell you the story of my life?
Dr. Mann: This is not about saving my life, it's about saving the human race.
Fantine: I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I'm living!
