I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.
The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.
I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.
I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.
I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.
I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
My arm came back just as quickly as it went sore on me in 1915. I awoke one morning and learned I could throw without pain again.
I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away.
