My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

Read more, Write anything, Earn Everything

Love, prayer and miracles go hand in hand. Every great master who has come forth to teach humanity has spoken of love.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

One cannot actualize his goals until he visualizes them clearly in the minds eye

Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?