I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

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.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.

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.'

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.