Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.