I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations..

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice..

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening..

I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after sc….

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system….

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the ….

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra..

Art transcends politics this weekend..

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there..

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman..

I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly..

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world..

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially..

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia..

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights..

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing..

I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortab….

I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of tooth….

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air..

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me..

I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress..