I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road.

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.