“We used to walk to school, or take the subway. Nobody thought the wors...” — Leslie Uggams Quote

“We used to walk to school, or take the subway. Nobody thought the worst of taking the subways. In fact, you could fall asleep on a train and nobody would bother you. You were always safe.”

“I had an aunt Eloise, my father's sister who was on Broadway in 'The Blackbirds of 1928,' then she did a stint with Ethel Waters and then she was in 'Porgy and Bess' and 'St. Louis Woman,' so she came from the theater world.”

“You know, when you are doing a musical you have no life - you are doing eight shows a week, so you can't be hanging out and talking a lot. If you are really dedicated, you live like a nun - and it's really, really hard.”

“I've written in the middle of a conversation or the grocery store or at another band's concert or in the last moments before falling asleep. It's pretty unpredictable. I think it's always flowing, and sometimes I'm not listening. There's no formula for when I'm going to be able to be a good listener to myself.”

“When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.”