I'm going to dress a little different. Those frilly dresses I used to wear on stage, that was the old me.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

Play with me and you play with fire.

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

Where your attention goes, you go.

Prettiness dies first.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Pain is not an evolutionary error.

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

I just could just shave my beard, and nobody would recognize me. Although I look like Jodie Foster.