My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.