They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.

Average leaders take you to the mountain.Superior leaders take you up the mountain.Excellent leaders take you to mountaintop.Transcendent leaders take you to the stars.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

We are well aware of what Donald Trump has done in his first 100 days. And people are organized all over the place to fight back.

We have to help African American people that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic American people. We have Hispanic-American people that are in the inner cities and they are living in hell.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.