I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
Hollywood has realised that we do have actors and are not just mad about song and dance.
Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer, and her songbook is just outrageous.
I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.
I consider myself an athlete. I train like an athlete, I eat like an athlete, I recover and get sore just like any other athlete.
'Dhoka,' I think, is not just meant for Pakistan and India but for South Asia.
The South Side loves me - I've got a song with Jermaine Dupri - and I've got songs on the East Coast and songs on the West Coast. Now, if I could just find me a rapper from up North.
I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.
I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.
My favorite thing about Milan is that you see these guys, and it's as if a spaceship came out of the most attractive planet invented and just dropped them off all across the city.
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!
We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.
I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.
