If you haven't got love, you've got nothing.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

I like to write poetry.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.