There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

My life is a room filled with love letters and goodbye notes.

Speech is the voice of the heart.

There is no certainty, not even your next breath. Live like you are dieing because in reality we all are.

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There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside.

I place a mask on everyday showing I'm alright but am I?

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

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