Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

Hitting bottom is an inside job — it's something that happens within our consciousness.

Let your emotions guide your hand to the paper and watch how your sorrows can turn into beauty. For tears relieve your body but writing relieves your heart.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

I'd like to be more approachable, not less weird

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green

The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.