I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.

I can't imagine life without singing.

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

When I was seventeen I drank some very good beer I drank some very good beer I purchased With a fake ID My name was Brian McGee I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

I'm not one of those actors that hates press and gets really groan-y about it - I always like talking about films.

Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season.