Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in.

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.

Dating is different when you get older. Youre not as trusting or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

Strive to be beyond what others percieve you to be by striving beyond the limits or yourself.

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.

The Purple Man helps Matt understand that his powers are unique, and maybe he is cut out for the hero biz after all. And Mr. Fear challenges Daredevil's very philosophy; how does a Man Without Fear deal with a man who induces terror in everyone he meets?

We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

I dont think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

I want to make each piece of clothing work 15 different ways.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

Love is blind

I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.

There is more power in unity than division.

When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

I don't feel the need to define nothin' to nobody, because I'm always changing. Why say that I'm this or that when I might not be tomorrow? I'm gonna follow my own feelings and my own heart.