Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.
I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.
If you always been my enemy, it's still that way.
Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.
I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.
We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.
I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
I had the chance to work with Michael Jackson who was as brilliant as they come.
The '60s were a time of great change in American music.
If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.
I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.
It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.
But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour.
There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
