Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

Tell Aretha I’ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

I'd leave London only for Man United, the club of my dreams. For Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on the bench.

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.

I've never slept with a virgin, but I love breaking the seal on a new peanut butter.

Space is unimaginably big.

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!