A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.

I am the original Material Girl.

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.