When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

Being stylish is about enjoying your life and expressing yourself and your inner light.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

The only way out is to go so far in.

Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.