I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

...And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money. Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

There's a lot there to enlarge you. That's part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.

Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

Always look forward. Follow the path of light

I don't care if I never see Texas again.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.