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There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

To lovers out there…. If you don’t make any means or efforts in pleasing, spoiling and satisfying your partner. When someone comes and does that to them. Your partner is going to leave you like they never loved you.

I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

Someone gave me great advice. That when you're looked on as a pioneer, or you start a trend, you're not always going to benefit from it.

While we all want the U.N. to live up to its original intent and be the place where the world comes together to solve international problems, the reality is the U.N. isn't all that different from any other political body. Countries and individuals play to the cameras, create good theatre, and negotiate selfishly.

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

……but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance

Literature is my utopia.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

A house that has books has hope.

I think I just say what I'm thinking. And - you know, if people relate to it, they relate to it, but - I really - you know, if you really listen to me, I don't have my finger on any pulse.

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. I was disappointed to see the people I'd always thought of as pop stars. They would charge around the stage rather than enjoy the music.

I'm teaming up with Quaker and PLAY 60 to encourage kids to eat right, stay active and do something outside for at least 60 minutes a day.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.