Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.
Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.
In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.
Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.
There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.
In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.
I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.
Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.
It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had.
I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
