I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something...

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.

I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.