It doesn't pay to try, all the smart girls know why.

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

I never drank from the fountain of knowledge, I had mine on the rocks.

Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

What matters is how I feel about it, cause if I feel good or bad about it, then the audience will feel good or bad about it and that's just sorta the job.

Every time your faith is strengthened as you hear the Word, release it through your mouth to receive your miracle, for God’s Word is out to prosper you!

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

I am portrayed as a dangerous individual who can be fought thanks to their ideas.