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- Nov 07, 2020
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.
- Cords
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020