I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.

Audiences are audiences.