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.

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.

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.

We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

The greatest risk in life is not to take a risk.

Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Much harm has been done in the name of love, but no harm can be done in the name of respect.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.