Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can't change the songs; people still want to hear "Lady Sings the Blues" and they still want to hear some of the oldies.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.