My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.

I don't think there's anything I can't do. I have no regrets.

I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about there being another me sharing space in the universe. Would I even like myself?

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

I have my own goals in my head in terms of things that would be great to happen.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.