You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.