I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.

The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.