It's funny how MUCH the LIE of a life after life works with people. Even people who are non-believers SEEM to think that their soul is going to SURVIVE.

The PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES are not morally FIT to SURVIVE.

My problem is I cannot be manipulative and diplomatic. And to SURVIVE on a show like BB,' you have to be very SMART. I cannot PUT so much pressure on my MIND. It will be a MENTAL pressure on me.

You FEEL DIFFERENT EVERY day of your life. You just have to create your own SPACE to survive, PERSONALLY and professionally.

We imagine THINGS - that we wouldn't be ABLE to survive, but in FACT, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

That callousness that comes from FEELING LIKE you have to SURVIVE on your own - I REALLY empathized with that.

Doctors give your FAMILY three options when your unborn baby is diagnosed with HLHS. You can terminate the PREGNANCY, you can have the baby and refuse treatment, or you can go through with the three surgeries our doctor had told us about. There was never any doubt in our minds that we were GOING to give our CHILD a CHANCE to survive and thrive.

The CHURCH is not GOING to survive if they are going to TELL people that they have to twist their minds into 1ST CENTURY pretzels.

I feel like every five to seven years I really NEED to PUT myself in this POSITION of discomfort and EXPLORATION, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go CRAZY if I don't do it.

I took some VOICE LESSONS here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I STARTED taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I NEEDED to improve my technique in ORDER to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

We NEED to DIRECT our EFFORTS toward one GOAL, and that is to SURVIVE.

I THINK it comes from FAR away INSIDE me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that SET up my pride very early on. I think I'm very DEFENSIVE, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

I've been ABLE to survive a lot of THINGS, and I am especially interested in survivor stories.