I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them.

Talent like Michael's is rare. I feel so privileged to have known him and so look forward to honouring his memory in what is going to be the biggest and only tribute to this great showman.

If all I do in my life is soothe someone's spirit with a song , then let me do that and I'm happy.

You could have told me yourself that you found someone else, instead I heard it through the grapevine.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.