I'm always giving out advice. People always come to me for that.

When you get a man, you have to nurture him. Treat him like a king. If you put that little work in in the beginning, it pays off.

Family's always first. God and family, and I go from there.

Don't just be in the business and have fun 'cause you're a kid. You've gotta learn; this is your livelihood.

Some days I'll be like, "You know what? Why don't I go to my daughter's studio and make a song?!" And then I don't! I don't know if I would have all the time it takes to put into a song.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

Through meditation, you can calm the mind and develop what is important to you.

We know. We've seen it all before.

Because being so dependent on people scares me.