I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Only one music comes out of me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.

May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.

I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.