"I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was 6 years old."

"I never had a lesson in my life. I never learned to read music. I can't read music. I play by ear, and I sing by ear."

"Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off."

"I never had a mother that was really a mother. I just had a kid that was a mother. She was eighteen, I was thirteen, and she used to go out and live it up. So I had to go out and get a job. I was work…"

"I don't care what people think about me. I just do my own thing."