I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

See yourself in the practice you are not able to access right now. Imagine yourself in it.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.

Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.