It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

I'm just passionately in love with my kids.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. --Anissa's Redemption

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Don’t surrender your life to a Face, a Farce, a Fence or a Force. Don’t be a Slave, be Brave.

Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.

Love is a loud communication between two and a mannequin of silence for others

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.

When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him.