You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.