Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.

I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.

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.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.