Pastoral Resources

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

Remorse is the pain of sin.