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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
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When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.
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I've been a diva since I was four.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.
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My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.
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I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.
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There have been great things that happened to me.
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If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
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The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.
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I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.
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With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
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Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.
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I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.
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It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.
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When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.
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I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.
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Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
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And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.
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What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?
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I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?
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I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.