You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

I'm one of those regular weird people.

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.