Natalie Cole

It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.