The whole system of society tells you what to do.

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

If you learn to be grateful and celebrate each day, you have mastered the secret to living.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

Love and time-those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought but only spent.

Little by little does the trick.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.

You have to take people as they are because there are no others.

In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.