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

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" 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 think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross. "

" My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. "

" I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular. "

" Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance. "

" I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process. "

" I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist. "

" Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue. "

" I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band. "

" 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. "

" I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any. "

" One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music. "

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

" I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it. "

" Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing. "

" When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much. "

" 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.' "

" When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?' "

" When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example. "

" People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look! "

" There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say. "

" I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt. "

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

" I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body. "

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

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

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

" There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet. "

" The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning. "