Nell Carter

I had to want to lose weight myself.

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

I had a pretty rough life. I got caught up in the star syndrome. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something that I'm glad is over.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.