She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

You've got to maintain your level of self-esteem through everything. You are who you are, and nobody will ever be able to take that from you if you don't let them

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

I don't spend all day running hand-on-hat from shadowy figures - I'm in exile.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.