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" I like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff. "

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" Aretha Franklin does not like me. "

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" The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys. "

" I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King. "

" If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy. "

" I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances. "

" I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old. "

" I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life. "

" Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes. "

" I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.' "

" I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down. "

" It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce. "

" If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive. "

" There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing. "

" I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.' "

" My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life. "

" One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist. "

" I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little. "

" I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'. "

" I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up. "

" I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it. "

" I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage. "

" My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well. "

" I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney. "

" People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way. "

" I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done. "

" I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing. "

" I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital. "

" It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina. "

" I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through. "

" It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain. "