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" 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. "

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" I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King. "

Natalie Cole

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King

Happy

" 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. "

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

" 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 think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life. "

" 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 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. "

Natalie Cole

Build

Starting

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Natalie Cole

Back

Even

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

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Faith

Power

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

Natalie Cole

Dark

Losing

" I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any. "

Natalie Cole

Left

Father

" I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.' "

" 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. "

Natalie Cole

Much

Led

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

" 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. "

" Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue. "

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