I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.

You have to give love to get love.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.

We will never fail. We shall fulfil the dream.

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

I’d like to have the flying car, I think that’d be really cool.

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.