I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

The best things in life are free

One look in your eyes and there I see just what you mean to me. Here in my heart I believe your love is all I'll ever need

Superman can fly high way up in the sky 'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine...It's all in the mind.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

Live for what you love, and die for what you're unwilling to live without...

Life is sad. Here is someone.

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

Let the boy win his spurs.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.