Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.

Changes Will Change Our Wayof Changing Changes, Petra Cecilia Maria HermansAugust 13, 2016

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Be stimulated by rejection

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

I am a huge fan of Gwen Stefani.

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

There's beggary in love that can be reckoned