Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains. . . awareness after the body's gone.
Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.
There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible.
The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
Music is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts of life, I see that this is not the music business I came up in and I have to be very, very objective and detached and say, 'what's good about it and what's bad about it?' Mostly, I'm finding it good that it's not the same old music business, because the music business I came up in really didn't advance anything I was doing, and I don't think it was particularly kind to a lot of artists.
There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
Life is essentially a question of values.
I love the rehearsal, as long as it's not over-rehearsed. I love it when the actors can rehearse until we feel really comfortable, and then the crew come in and shoot it. I'm not especially a big fan of rehearsing with the crew and the crew rehearsing and, "Let's rehearse this tracking dolly shot 25 times until it's just right. " Television has to be shot a certain way to have a certain look. And sometimes the tried-and-true method is the best.