Sometimes I have songs born out of stories.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

A moment in time is never dead.

I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.