I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston..

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this..

There are a lot of lessons that you learn, and you have to learn them quickly if you want to be competitive at this top level..

I don't join or leave things lightly..

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you..

When you have to work, work with a smile..

Even if you're the greatest of all time, people are not just going to give it to you. It's a great lesson..

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned..

I do what I do because I love it..

I could have coached better..

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone..

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong..

It's not personal, it's strictly business.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option..

I imitate everyone except myself..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics..

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it..

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life..

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and….