"You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it."

"It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most."

"My Dad is my hero."

"There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home."

"It is a radiant truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing."

"It is a profound truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a essential truth that in the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain."

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."