Play with me and you play with fire.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.

God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

When I'm on tour, I don't see these spots as much as I'd like. I'm just in, I perform, then I'm out. I hope to spend years sightseeing, then more years after that.

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.

We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.

Most people can only sleep with a nice soft pillow I can only sleep with heavy anti psychotics

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

No one is in your life by mistake.

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.