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" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material. "

" My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure. "

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

" We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far. "

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

" I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "