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It's Not As If The Stories Merge To A Point Where You Think They Are Your Life, But You Do Let Them In The Front Door And The Back Door, And It's Okay That Sometimes Certain Characters Stay For Dinner.

My Mother Says I Was Two-and-a-half When I Started Playing. My Father Was A Minister, And When He Went To Church In The Morning, She Would Put On Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole And Cole Porter Records. I'd Crawl Up On The Piano Stool, Sit On A Phone Book And Play.

Sometimes It Seems Like We're Closer To Our Manicurists Than We Are Our Own Souls. We Have To Find Ways To Get In Touch With That And To Listen To It And To Hear It.

Womanhood Is A Whole Different Thing From Girlhood. Girlhood Is A Gift...womanhood Is A Choice.

Getting People To Go Above And Beyond The Call Of Duty Can Be Achieved But Only If You, The Artist, Are Willing To Go Above And Beyond Any And All Calls Of Duty Yourself.