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

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" I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney. "

" I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt. "

" 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. "

" I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it. "

" 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. "

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

" When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?' "

" I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular. "

" 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've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process. "

" I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross. "

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

" God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me. "

" One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music. "

" 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 like Babyface, but he keeps the good stuff for himself. If he's willing to give his good stuff to me, we'll talk. But it can't be any of his B-grade stuff. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records. "

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

" I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings. "

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

" 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'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. "

" People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way. "

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