If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

My driving force is spirituality.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

I got an early education from television.

God will never leave nor forsake you even at the time of the most difficult trials

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

Hope is a stance, not an assessment.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

One can love any man that is generous.

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

Fascism is [...] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.