That's common in our industry, where some songs make the cut, some don't. It's bad when it doesn't make the cut and you don't get in on the project.

Anytime a person has Disney World in their backyard, you know they're thinking big.

I did like seven songs on Michael Jackson's Invincible album, but I might have done 60 songs to get to those seven. You don't know what's going to happen.

She [Beyonce]is probably the closest thing we've seen to Michael Jackson as far as having that determination and drive that I've ever seen.

It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the period of time it would take to do one.

Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records.

It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like Beyoncé. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.

Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.

I'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

The team is the star, never an individual player.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

Service is what life is all about.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

I get to represent a lot of different types of women because of my ability to transform into these different people.