I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.

I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?

Women can build stability. We can make peace.

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

My songs are like kids. I love them all. I encourage them to grow, to reach their full potential, and then send them out into the world.