I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

When people come and see my show, I try to infuse into them that they can walk away feeling like their lives are a victory.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, its a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.