112 Quotes by Natalie Cole

You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.

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.

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'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.