I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

Homelessness is not the result of not having a house, it's lack of a soul in a body.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.