You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.
Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.Collection: Inspirational
The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.Collection: Realizing
You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.Collection: Yeah
You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.Collection: Care
My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.Collection: Legacy
I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.Collection: Positivity
We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the love we give, is all that will endure Just like a rose after the rain Something beautiful remains Tears will leave no stains Time will ease the pain For every life that fades Something beautiful remainsCollection: Beautiful
I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.Collection: Survival
People hold on to what they like. They discard what they don't...Collection: People
Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.Collection: Strength
Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.Collection: Wine
You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.Collection: Years
I want to breathe in the Spiritual.Collection: Spiritual
I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.Collection: Dancing
I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.Collection: Song
The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.Collection: Thinking
On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.Collection: People
I was always attracted to science fiction moviesCollection: Movie
On board the new Ironsides, I had the Marine guard stationed at the after gun, thirty-five in number, and I think it was conceded that no gun of that heavy battery was worked more efficiently than the "Marine gun" as it was called.Collection: Marine
I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.Collection: Memories
What is love but a second-hand emotion?Collection: Hands
There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.Collection: Differences
My parents separated when I was youngerCollection: Parent
I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.Collection: Country
I've never bothered about my color.Collection: Color
Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for someCollection: Movie
It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.Collection: Children
If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be. Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.Collection: Common Sense
I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.Collection: Singers
As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.Collection: Long
As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.Collection: Children
What's love got to do with it?Collection: Love
Love is definitely a foundation, a spiritual connection that makes peace. Also it is the change in the world. People don't get so hung up on it any more as they used to. They feel that it can be secondary in some instances.Collection: Spiritual
Sometimes we need help from a godCollection: Needs
They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.Collection: Kids
In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconsciousCollection: Buddhism
First of all, I'm happy that I'm healthy.Collection: Healthy
There's been (if you sort of scan the magazines) announcements of different performers that has come and tried to get the British audience to go crazy, simply by them entering the stage because they had a hit record. It just doesn't happen. That happens in America.Collection: Crazy
I remember music first artists second.Collection: Artist