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I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
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Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
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You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like. 2
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When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
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I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.
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I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.
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My daughter is my greatest inspiration.
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My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.
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You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.
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Success doesn't change you; fame does. 1
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I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.
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What's in your soul is in your soul.
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I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.
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I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.
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Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.
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In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
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I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.
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No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.
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I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.
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You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.
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She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
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I'd rather be alone than unhappy.
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There can be miracles when you believe.