I've probably cried with a lot of songs - in teenage crushes, adult crushes.

I don't think I was a catalyst for the women's movement.

Women absolutely deserve respect.

I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!

If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.