I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.' That one makes me cry from joy. I'll mourn - I'll actually mourn - and then I'll cry from joy. She's wonderful.

For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.

I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. Own a Picasso was one of those things.

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.

If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.