If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

'I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.' 'Sir, we don't serve negroes here.' 'Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.'

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

You gotsta love all God's children!

A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.