I wrote POETRY, which got me into lyrics. Stevie WONDER, Carole KING, Elton JOHN pulled me into pop. I started singing with a BAND - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

I have a very high opinion of STEVE KING and his ABILITY, so I WOULD encourage him to consider any position for higher office.

I'm GOING to be the NEXT KING of the EARTH.

The KING REIGNS but does not GOVERN.

I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one POINT.

Even though I studied in New YORK and I KNOW the American system, I come from FRANCE where I learned that with movies in France where the director is KING. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, PERIOD.

The Dr. King holiday is not just for BLACK PEOPLE, AFRICAN-Americans or people of African descent.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble MAN who UNITED all the nations of the EARTH. But that probably won't HAPPEN.

The goal of Dr. Martin LUTHER King is to GIVE Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same WHITE MAN who had brutalized them for 400 YEARS.

The KING is FULL of kindnesses toward me, and I love him tenderly. But it is pitiable to see his WEAKNESS for Madame du Barri, who is the silliest and most impertinent creature that it is POSSIBLE to CONCEIVE.

I saw my first two BROADWAY shows when I was 4 years OLD, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty and the BEAST,' and after both of them I CAME home and reenacted the entirety of the shows on my living room table for my family and friends. I started doing that after every show I saw until I actually did my first youth production when I was 5.

You cannot hear the name Martin LUTHER King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a DREAM,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple MOTEL balcony, a large man MADE SMALL, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.

When Dr. KING was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his WORDS on television that NIGHT when I was 9 YEARS old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.