The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

Sing a song correctly and you live forever.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

You will never get to your destination on time if choose to walk two paths through life.

People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?