Vanity

“'Vanity' means worthlessness.”

“I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.”

“I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.”

“I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.”

“Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.”

“I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.”