“When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.”

“Too embarrassed even to try as long as everyone was looking at me, I made what was probably a fairly unique request. ‘Um, I’ll have a go. But I can’t do it if you’re all looking at me. Can I go inside the wardrobe and sing from there?’ The others looked at me strangely, possibly beginning to worry about the apparent absence of any stage personality in this girl they had just recruited, but to their credit they agreed, without killing themselves laughing, and so in I went. From inside my hidey-hole I sang David Bowie’s ‘Rebel Rebel’. I emerged to a very positive response, the others all declaring that I sounded like Siouxsie Sioux – I was trying very hard to – and while I was quite pleased with myself, I wasn’t sure that I would be able to do it in front of an audience. We could hardly take the wardrobe around with us.”

“We're all human beings,when did we change to havings?Living out our life through things.How do we get back to being again?”

“The easiest part of the writing process is whichever part I’m not currently doing.”

“I believe, in the years to come, America will look to Rwanda as a very bright light of hope: a country that has been restored by the healing hands of God., ,”

“You live and learn, and if you can provide perfect strangers with a little entertainment along the way, so much the better.”

“...if we run toward our fears, they lose their power and ultimately disappear""I think this is one of the giant lessons in adapting to age without losing your mind: we must let go of what was and begin accepting what is""'fate loves the fearless.' There is no better time to be fearless than in your fifties; if you really put your mind and your energy into it, you can make amazing things happen.”