I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Our part in life is to persevere and learn as quickly as we can, for our victory depends upon our perception of the world".

Even cowards can endure hardship only the brave can endure suspense.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

I love writing songs where the name is the title.

Super excited about things I'm going to do; never excited about things I'm actually doing.

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.