If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

Every song is a story unfolding.

My baby is the joy in my life.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.