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

I can't imagine life without singing.

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

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.

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.

You have so much love in you. Trust your firends and family. They're all you have, but they're precious, the most important part of your life.

The cancer set into her bones and whittled her down to nothing. The weariness of the world and the weight in her heart laid her to rest in January.

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.

Court... a place where they dispense with justice.

I had many years where I just worked from film to film to film. And then all of a sudden I went: "Where did I put my bags down? Where's my little place I call home?"

I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

I know enough of God to want to know more.

The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.