I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight...

Live and dwell in endless possibilities to find out what is possible.

Let us work joyfully while we have the strength.

Love never follows laws.

Every age gets the lunatics it deserves.

The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that.

I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!

I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

Appetite, a universal wolf.