I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

Don't be in such a hurry.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.