Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.

Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

The difference between champions and everyone else is that champions are never afraid of losing, while everyone else is afraid of winning.

Prenuptial agreement: Paper a lawyer prepares to protect the party of the first part from the party of the second part should they discover the party's over.

To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.