I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!

The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.

All sports for all people.

That’s why girls have boyfriends. So you have someone to take you to boring functions.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.

Only a true friend would be that truly honest.

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.