“I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.”

Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.

I don’t drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don’t need them. I’m a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don’t need another illusion.

Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute.

In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.

If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can’t keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.

I don’t know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn’t as efficient.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That’s the way studios do it now.