I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.