My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.
It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a v...
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
I'm so not a celebrity.
I'm the git in the family.
Education is a vacine for violence.
Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.
Music is in my DNA!
I'm an interpreter of music.
I'm not afraid of aging.
A grownup is a child with layers on.
Canadians are the best, they're the best.
TV is the best babysitter.
The best movies are simple.
Recess and lunch are the best.
The image is an image.
I want to be invisible.
These are icons to be treasured.
Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.