I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.

I don't mind dating younger men now.

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

Well, there's no other person like me. Ain't nobody else like me. It's flattering. I don't like to do it too much because I get tired of me. But people ask, so I get to do it every now and then.

I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense.  I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all.

Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is making tunes.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?

Youth is stranger than fiction.