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

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.

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.

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.

The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.

I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'