I can't imagine life without singing.

I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

Your laughter : the drugThat cures my emotional infection

Forgiveness is always worthy because it's worth.

Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.

This is a business of love and labor.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.

Follow our hearts. Live our dreams. Tell the truth.