But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.