I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see and that you encounter and make the best of it.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

When I wake up, I always thank God. I'm grateful for another day, and he's allowed me this tiny thing that we should be appreciative of. As long as you know who you are, everything else will be OK. No one else can intervene or interfere or affect you, because you control your destiny, you control your tone, you control everything in your life.

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.