I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

When you’re with a girl, it’s always best to act like you’re an old hand at everything—not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.

Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass, " The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne

What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color.

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.