You can't just be a wimp and then a year and a half or two years later decide to not be a wimp anymore. Because people will always treat you like a wimp once they have decided that's what you are. You have to be strong and tough and intelligent and smart and kind of plan out what you're going to say and know who you are. So that people will get that right away. Because then they're always going to be great to you. And they're always going to treat you with respect.

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.

If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?

I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.

I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.

When you're hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.