You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.