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" My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone. "

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" I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response. "

" I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting. "

" When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be. "

" If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall. "

" Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. "

" You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway. "

" I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side. "

" Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker. "

" People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important. "

" Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form. "

" Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line. "

" You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean. "

" Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup. "

" When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song. "

" I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair. "

" I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony. "

" I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could. "

" I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. "

" You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine. "

" I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself. "

" I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else. "

" I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever. "

" I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. "

" I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be? "

" I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like. "

" I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. "

" Everything does go in a circle. "

" When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life. "

" I'm in the business where you get the business all the time. "