I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.

Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

Lily Tomlin said something years ago, and I'm paraphrasing, that you have to find humor in everything, because by finding humor, you find humanity.

It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people...

Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.