You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.

You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!