When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wan….

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ev….

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

Be bold. You gotta be bold..

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing..

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made..

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health..

Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves..