There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.

Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.

I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.

I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

[On plastic surgery:] My motto is: 'Anything that can be lifted should be lifted. Anything that falls should be caught. And try to catch any falling stuff before it hits the ground.

Curiosity is its own suicide.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.