Accomplishments have no color.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.

Who I am is the best I can be.

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

Be black, shine, aim high.

If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

Everyone's related to someone who robbed a bank or did something.

I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.'

Like everyone else, I don't want it to get too far away from the racing because as time progresses, we're trying to get new fans and still keep the old fans and we've still got to have the racing.