Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Here's the thing about faith: It gives us the strength to go on when we want to give in. It gives us the courage to get up when we want to lie down. It gives us the power to make a way out of no way when there ain't no way. Just as love can't make you strong until love has made you weak, well, faith can't lift you up until life has knocked you down. With faith or without it, we can't stop the waves. But with it, we don't need to. Because with it we can ride the surf.

I'm no different than you.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

Being honored at Berklee College of Music; I got a doctorate. I am Doctor Patti.