Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

Immerse yourself into self-development, realization of potential and establishing yourself as real person and personality

I may be forty but every morning when I get up I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately there's never one around.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.

Involution always precedes evolution.

Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.