When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

I'm just passionately in love with my kids.

It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.

If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours.

I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

When you're single and in your 20s, you throw on a pair of jeans and look fabulous.

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I remember if the telephone rang after 9 o'clock in the house, my mother would say, 'Who's ringing at this time?' We just wouldn't answer the phone.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I wasn't expelled for anything vicious, just being cheeky, not doing what I was told, answering back, and always rising to the bait if someone said something annoying about my dad.

I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit.

Hire passionate employees.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

There is a plan and a purpose a value to every life no matter what its location age gender or disability.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.

A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.