I could have had my husband put me on a lot of TV shows every day, but I chose not to. I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well.
Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.
I am an educator who thinks globally.
The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.
The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
Casting is everything. I put a huge amount of work into casting, and consistently across my career, I am most proud of my bold choices I made in casting.
I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.
Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.
I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.
All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming.
I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.
I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.
I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.
The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
I hope to be acting until I am 90.
Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.
After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.
With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.
I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.
I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a doo-wop song on the album; a blues song, R&B and some jazz. For people who are going to be hearing me for the first time, it's an introduction to who I am.
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.
Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously.
I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!
