Start small and with your own money..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

My only advice as an experience older singer is about singing, it isn't about music. To have a career in music is a completely different question and….

The image is an image..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing ….

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 love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are….

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

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard ….

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..