I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.

I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.

I eat my feelings - when I'm happy, when I'm sad.

What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.

I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.

...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.