Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

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.

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.

For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

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.

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.