I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.

All time faves would be 'Smash TV,' 'NHL Hockey,' 'Grand Theft Autos,' 'NBA Lives,' 'Sonic.'

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

I only want to do live shows. What happens with TV shows is you can't always do things live.

It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players

Politicians against gay marriage now, are the future villains of our American History books.

I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.

I feel truly blessed to be one of the many black women who are leading ladies on television.

I feel like my music is for everybody. As long as the music is good, I can please everybody.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

Part of the fun of kids is the craziness, and you've got to embrace that side of it as well.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

I have spent a lot of time out in Australia, and so I have a good little fan base out there.

My dad's from New Jersey, so I used to go to America a lot. I feel like it is a second home.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

When Scandal had a top 20 video, no one knew what I looked like. I had all this stuff on me.

What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.

I don't wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can't really see it happening.

On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

I just made my album. I did my best, and I uploaded the video just at YouTube. That was all.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day

By pushing children and wanting quick success, parents are producing followers, not leaders.

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