Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.
Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
It is so important that we have an opportunity to rebuild the cities with small businesses, with those transitional jobs for people who can come out of a corrections facility and get a job.
When you're good and you're winning, it attracts people to come out for track.
People don't have confidence in their senior elected officials. These are the ones we entrust with the public's business, (with) votes and actions that will be done for the sole benefit of the citizens of New Jersey. It's time for a change. This is not a change.
I'm happy to see her coming back, ... She's what the whole show should be about, giving people a chance and watching what happens when young people explore their talent and try to follow their dream.