The more natural, the better.
I can’t believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can’t believe I set foot on the same stage, and it’s going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it’s going to be a video.
I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.
I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.
When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you’ve done and all these great people that you’ve worked with.
I’m a woman now.
I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you’re not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.
It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Smiling is one of the highest forms of meditation.
There is power in forgiveness.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isnt correct. We all start with all there is, its how we use it that makes things possible.
It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.
Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.
Possessions are always secondary, loved ones are all that matters.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.
Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.
Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.
You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.
