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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off. "

" I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up. "

" I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album. "

" I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary. "

" When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic. "

" 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. "

" I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra. "

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

" 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. "

" We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away. "

" I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person. "

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

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

" 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. "

" God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with. "

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

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

" By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop. "

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

" Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful. "

" I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans. "

" 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. "

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

" When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are. "

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