You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

Tell Aretha I’ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

Kindness has the warmth in it and it can melt a hateful heart.

O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.

Never stop screaming, playing and laughing, it's part of our childhood wich will always be with us.

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

I'll just carry on being a dated flower child.

I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.

When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.