I was a personality before I became a person.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.