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" When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through. "

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

" 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. "

" When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element? "

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

" We have to stop rewarding bad behavior. "

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

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

" One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist. "

" 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. "

" When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much. "

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" 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 would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans. "

" The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948. "

" 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?' "

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" 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. "

" 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. "