I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

Flying by the seat of your pants precedes crashing by the seat of your pants.

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.