I love Gershwin. I love musicals.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know that there's nothing but light when I see you.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

I'm not selling out, denying who I am or where I've come from, not at all. I acknowledge that.

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along the way. And that means messing up a lot. That means throwing away a lot of drawings.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.