Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.