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

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" 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. "

" I was going to college to be a doctor. "

" Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico. "

" 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. "

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

" My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita. "

" We have to stop rewarding bad behavior. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "