I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world.

Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me down. Adults have let the world down.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music. You've heard the expression, music of the spheres? Well, that's a very literal phrase. In the Gospels, we read, "And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." That 'breath of life' to me is the music of life and it permeates every fiber of creation.