Nell Carter

I had to want to lose weight myself.

You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.

I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.