I'm the worst thing since Elvis Presley, to do Black music so selfishly.

I'm just a woman. And as a woman， I have no way to make money， not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money， which I don’t， it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him， not me. They would be his property. So don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition， because it is.

I always try to stay focused on the present moment.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Technology gives us the tools to fish smarter, not harder.