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.

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

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

Wisdom is the essence of education. Kindness is the essence of morality.

If the shoe doesn't fit - break it!

Where you are today is where you're from tomorrow.

Virtue has need of limits.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.