I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.

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.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Inner peace is the hallmark of a peaceful joyful soul.

That is the consolation of a little mind you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

"No" isn't really a word I understand.

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.