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 think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.