It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.

It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.

I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.

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.

One thing you cannot control is nature.