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" I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees. "

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" Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to. "

Natalie Cole

Father

Vegas

Boring

" 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. "

" We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways. "

" As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids. "

" Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept. "

Natalie Cole

Dark

Losing

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

" I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best. "

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

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

" I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966. "

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

" You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today. "

Natalie Cole

I Am

You

" I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted. "

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

" It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff. "

" 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 imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit. "

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

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Daughter

Lot

" 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'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. "

Natalie Cole

Always

Faith

" It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener. "

" What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me. "

" There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it. "

" As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better. "

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

" I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent. "

" I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes. "

" 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 don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about. "

Natalie Cole

Sex

Parents